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Stage Description Blocking cross-walls between Cryptoporticus wall ends and Portico Wall. Widening of Portico Wall.
Description Fairly well-built wall of hewn and dressed sandstone blocks, oriented east west and built against the north end of the Middle Cryptoporticus Wall of the East Triple Colonnade of the Lower Temenos and the south face of the Portico Wall. A lot of chinking stones are used in this wall; more so than in the later walls east and south. Its posited function was as a cross-wall, constructed to create a “cell” in the cryptoporticus junction area that could be filled with debris. This was done in order to strengthen and preserve the East Triple Colonnade after an earthquake event in the 2nd century CE.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 894.138 m in northwest, 895.778 m in southwest.
Location In west of trench.
Definition Later Cross-Wall in West
Abuts Locus 6, 15.
Underlies Locus 19.
Overlies Locus 25.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. repairs following a more collapse. Building of the Propylaeum Central...
Stage Stage 11
Phase VII
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: G-0.37 m in northwest, G-0.38 m in southwest.
Combined with None.
Size Approx. 4.10 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 13 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 99". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/c7435303-7139-4d67-e930-2ea01e794198> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k21r6wm70

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