Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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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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