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Stage Description Expansions in the north and west including new walls and a plaster and sandstone floor in Room 4. May be in Phase VI or VII.
Phase V
Overlies Unknown.
Definition Room 5 Sandstone Floor
Abuts Locus 97 threshold between Room 4 and 5, Locus 96 Room 4 north wall/ Room 5 south wall.
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs. The East 'Cistern' is used for storage and possibly...
Description This area was only partially excavated to the east of Room 4 as well as to its northern edge. The pavement in this locus is finely carved and is composed of regular sandstone blocks: four are in the north and seven pavers are visible in the east. In the east the pavement has been exposed a maximum of 0.54 m east west-by- 2.21 m north south; while in the north pavement is excavated to 2.31 m east-by-west and 0.91 m north- by-south.
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: Unknown.
Top (m) Opening Depth: 906.748 m.
Stage Stage 6a
Location In the far northeast of the excavated Residential Quarter.
Underlies Soil Locus 57.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 98 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 94". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/2f7d6a74-1793-45ff-b2a5-4a2fa6e66afd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2dn47n0t

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