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Top (m) Top elevation: 887.31 m..
Underlies Threshold Blocking Wall Locus 6 between Loci 4 and 5.
Combined with Locus 2 West Corridor Wall, Third Doorway Loci 4 and 5 Doorjambs and Locus 13 the West side of the West Corridor Wall Part III and Fourth Doorway Doorjambs Loci 11 South Doorjamb and Locus 12 North Doorjamb.
Location The third doorway from the north linking the West Walkway with the West Corridor.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The tetrastyle in antis temple is built, including...
Size 1.78 m in length-by- 0.14 m in height-by-0.32 m in width. The size of the threshold itself is 2.4 m in height-by-1.35 m in width-by-0.33 m in depth.
Stage Stage 1
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: 2.17 m below Point C or 887.17 m.
Description This threshold block is cut like a typical sandstone string course ashlar. It is covered over by the building of Doorway 3 Locus 6 Threshold Blocking Wall, so during excavation it was not visible except from its side.
Phase IV
Stage Description Construction of the West Corridor Wall.
Definition Threshold Block between Doorjambs Loci 4 and 5 in Doorway 3.
Abuts Threshold Blocking Wall Locus 6 and the as yet unexposed lower elements of Doorjambs Loci 4 and 5.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 14 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 63". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/5915cadd-a0ae-4d11-46ba-fd9badc37db0> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2bz69513

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