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Stage Description Subterranean canalization system and ground channels installed into the prepared bedrock surface beneath the temple.
Underlies Locus 26.
Overlies Unknown (presumably bedrock).
Bottom (m) Closing: 905.103 m.
Phase I
Description The exposed area of channel 3 consists of two sandstone blocks. At the juncture of these stones lies a flat, irregularly shaped sandstone block, perhaps laid as leveling. The channel itself is square-cut and dressed, but does not contain any traces of pipe seating mortar. Its total exposed length is 1.97 m while its width is consistent with both channels 1 and 2: 0.08-to-0.11 m.
Definition Channel 3
Stage Stage 1
Top (m) Opening: 905.203 m.
Phase Description Phase I: Preparation: 1st c. BCE subterranean canalization is installed and the bedrock leveled with a coarse yellow soil.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 30 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 57". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/8ca04dc8-2f24-42ba-43e6-9f71c20195d3> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2vq3261r

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