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Underlies None at point of excavation it was exposed.
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs, including the addition of the Theater, intercolumnar...
Description is an East Window with a height of 1.32 m and a width of 1.2 m. The Inter-Columnar Wall at this point is three courses in height. There is also a West Window which is 3.70 m in height with ten architectural courses of ashlars. This window is 2.37 m in width and there is 2.70 m depth to its opening ledge. In the far west is a third window, or Most West Window that measures –1.69 m from Sub Datum 77 SP Point Z or 910.26 m in elevation; it consists of six courses, and is 2.28 m in width.
Phase V
Definition Inter-Columnar Wall
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: From Sub Datum point 77 X, - 1.50 m or 911.56 m elevation.
Stage Stage 2
Stage Description Construction of the intercolumnar walls.
Top (m) Opening elevation: At Sub Datum point 77 X or 913.063 m, and Z or 911.947 m—different elevations depending on the collapse.
Combined with The rebuilding of the Petra Great Temple Site Phase IV.
Location Parallel with the Temple South Exterior Wall.
Size Varying dimensions.
Overlies More of the same.
Abuts Rear/south Great Temple columns.
Bonds to None, abuts with all.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 37 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Special Project 72". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/97a6ece3-e2a8-468e-4818-affe3e8b42fd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2pz57z8p

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