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Stage Description Construction of the outer East Anta walls and threshold.
Description This is the fragment of the original Temple north south Anta wall extending to the north — where it has broken away. Its south face is also fragmented. The upper row consists of a header (0.39 m-x-0.43 m), a second header (0.35 m-x-0.425 m), and a third header (0.61.5 m-x-0.42 m), and the second row consists of one stretcher (1.52 m-x-0.47 m). The third row consists of only one ashlar, which measures 1.26 m –x- 0.35 m in height. These ashlars are well set and are bonded with plaster, but has been damaged in antiquity.
Top (m) Top elevation: 0.00 m at Point A or 887.280 m.
Overlies Unknown.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The tetrastyle in antis temple is built, including...
Underlies Locus 1 topsoil and debris
Definition The northern fragment of the East Anta Wall.
Stage Stage 1
Combined with Threshold Locus 8 and Locus 5, its southern extension.
Abuts Threshold Locus 8 to its north.
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: 885.98 m or -1.30 m below Point A.
Phase IV
Size This wall fragment measures 1.52 m on its east side and it is 1.30 m in width; it is 1.30 m in depth.
Location In the northwest of Trench 64.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 6 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 64". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e88af717-6509-4594-23bc-60cd7e8b34b9> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2h996r5j

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