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Phase IV
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is...
Stage Stage 1
Stage Description Construction of the southwest rooms.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Definition
  • Portion of the Nabataean north wall to the east of the north door
  • Hexagonal Pavement Floor
Top (m)
  • Opening elevation: 905.835 m.
  • Opening elevation: 905.587 m.
Bottom (m)
  • Closing elevation: 905.375 m.
  • Closing elevation: 905.537 m.
Size
  • 0.28 m in visible north south width-by-1.37 m in east west length.
  • 0.86 m north south-by-0.60 m east west.
Preserved Height
  • 0.05 m.
  • 0.46 m.
Underlies
  • Locus 15.
  • Trench 83, 2001 Shrine Room wall loci.
Overlies
  • The floor bedding of the Baroque Room.
  • Locus 2 (Leveling Fill).
Location
  • East boundary of the trench.
  • Southwest corner of the Shrine room.
  • Southwest corner of the Shrine Room.
Bonds to
  • None.
  • Locus 10.
Abuts
  • None.
  • Locus 2 (Leveling Fill).
Combined with
  • Loci 2, 3, 9, 10 and 14.
  • Locus 2 (Leveling Fill).
Description Locus 1 is constructed of large, hewn sandstone ashlars that are dry laid. It stands one course high and is wider (extends farther to the south) than the late leveling courses and wall above it. It is visibly at least two rows thick. In the east, Locus 1 ends approximately 1.10 m before the late wall above, the latter resting on dirt at its easternmost edge.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 1 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Special Project 123". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e20f5049-3291-43dc-037f-1e792c3212a3> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k25d8vs6w

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