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Definition The Canalization System (Capstones)
Top (m) Opening level: 905.429 m.
Location Southwest Corridor extending from east to west.
Stage Description Subterranean canalization installed/cut into the temple foundations.
Description These five roughly hewn sandstone capstones each measure approximately 1.50 m in length-by-irregular widths, averaging 0.65 m. Superficially, this canalization is very irregular and uneven in appearance, but in antiquity it was covered with the Corridor Pavement and wouldn’t have been seen. (Since this feature was recovered on the last day of excavation, it was not fully investigated and, presumably, will be found to extend under the east balk of the trench.)
Phase I
Bottom (m) Closing level: 905.429 m.
Overlies None.
Phase Description Phase I: Preparation: 1st c. BCE subterranean canalization is installed and the bedrock leveled with a coarse yellow soil.
Underlies Locus 11 soil.
Combined with None.
Stage Stage 0
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 16 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 59". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/afbca8f3-de7c-4fb7-244f-ce70b50530af> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2rj4jd2f

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