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Bottom (m) Closing Levels: Unknown.
Location The floor of the trench.
Description Prepared sandstone bedrock surface which extends westward 11.40 m from the east wall and averages a width of 2.13 m between the builders’ trenches that hug the north and south edges of the trench. In an east west line down the center of the trench are three divets spaced about 2.00 m apart from one another. The two divets in the west are open, and the one in the east was filled with plaster in antiquity. In the west, there is a cut in the bedrock measuring 0.93 m in width-by-2.08 m in length-by-0.18 m in depth in which four north south channels are installed as part of the canalization system.
Stage Description Preparation of the bedrock platform of the temple: quarrying and installation of the north south channels.
Phase I
Top (m) Opening Levels: Sub datum 85C – 5.40 m (northwest), 905.398 m (northeast)
Overlies None.
Definition Bedrock
Stage Stage 1
Underlies Loci 2, 3, 4, 19, 23.
Phase Description Phase I: Preparation: 1st c. BCE subterranean canalization is installed and the bedrock leveled with a coarse yellow soil.
Combined with None.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 26 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 85". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1a6763b9-6684-4713-23e2-8734e18a34ce> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2862m58g

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