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Description The south part of the doorway stands one block high with a height of 0.400 m and measures 0.40 m-by-0.47 m. The north part of this structure is composed of six nicely diagonally dressed and regularly cut Nabataean blocks. This structure stands 1.64 m in height, and is 0.71 m in length north to south-by-0.41 m in width. The top block has two holes deliberately drilled into its southwest and southeast face.
Abuts Locus 1 bedrock escarpment.
Overlies Bedrock.
Underlies Locus 43 Room 2 major destruction
Definition Doorway to Cave 1
Location In the southeast of the domestic structure.
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: 907.006 m.
Top (m) Opening Depth: 908.646 m.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 87 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/c256d9aa-09ce-4aee-220b-679455c60108> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k27s7sf4n

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