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Stage Description Expansions in the north and west including new walls and a plaster and sandstone floor in Room 4. May be in Phase VI or VII.
Location The northern boundary of the trench.
Phase V
Overlies Unknown.
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs. The East 'Cistern' is used for storage and possibly...
Definition North Façade wall
Description As a conservative estimate of exactly how this wall links to the later north wall in front of the rooms to the east, we have made this wall a separate locus although it may very well bond to Locus 2. At the moment the wall is so badly damaged that it is difficult to tell its relationship to the surrounding architecture. It has up to six courses of masonry visible.
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: Unknown.
Underlies Soil Locus 3 in areas.
Top (m) Opening Depth: 906.748 m.
Combined with Locus 103 north access to the Residential Quarter and possibly Locus 2 later north façade wall for Baroque Room and Cistern.
Stage Stage 6a
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 104 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 94". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/0949b0da-e705-434e-1340-099fa0cc75b1> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2wd3zm8g

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