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Stage Description Main construction of the Bath Complex.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 901.709 m.
Location This doorway is located in the north of the curvilinear chamber Locus 5. It is the main access to the curvilinear chamber from the “Reception/Vestibule Room” of the baths. It extends up to the east face of Locus 3 and to the west face of Locus 5.
Description This doorway lintel, which is crudely incised with an arch, is oriented northeast southwest. On the north it is supported by six courses of reused sandstone ashlars, and to the south there are nine courses of reused ashlars set into three rows with prolific amounts of mortar. From its threshold there is a “step” down into the curvilinear chamber Locus 5. The bath system seems to have been planned as a single unit and it appears that it is on the same axis of orientation as the Great Temple, northwest to southeast. This locus along with others of the bath complex appears to be self-contained elements in an overall design that physically distinguish different areas of the baths.
Stage Stage 2
Preserved Height 1.95 m.
Definition S Rooms Curvilinear Chamber 5, Doorway and lintel north
Abuts Abuts and bonds with: It extends up to the east face of Locus 3 and the west face of Locus 5.
Size The opening itself is 0.89 m in width-by-1.30 m in length.
Phase Description Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. At this time the northwest subterranean...
Overlies A portion of the curvilinear chamber of Locus 5.
Bonds to The curvilinear chamber Locus 5.
Cuts Locus 5.
Phase VI
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 899.679 m.
Underlies Locus 9.
Combined with Curvilinear chamber Locus 5 loci.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 4 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 127". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e042b028-e219-43af-789e-d1ecd97fb910> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k25m69j4g

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