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Stage Description Construction of the East Vaulted Chamber.
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs, including the addition of the Theater, intercolumnar...
Underlies Nothing.
Phase V
Overlies Unknown.
Location Extends along the southern boundary of trench, east west.
Definition South Wall
Description Locus 2, which is 2.98 m in length, is a poorly constructed wall composed of medium-to-large sized sandstone ashlars. There is extensive use of small leveling stones. This wall is the highest of the four, due to the construction of the vault, which slants upward toward the south. The upper course of the wall has been consolidated.
Top (m) Opening levels: 910.376 m (top unconsolidated course).
Stage Stage 1
Combined with None.
Bottom (m) Closing levels: 906.186 m center.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
1998.Fig40.Tr55.locus 2 south wall
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 2 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 55". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/0392712a-e0e0-4445-4a64-bcff52acb828> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k25x2f76n

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