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Top (m) Opening elevation: 897.508 m.
Underlies Locus 5.
Definition Garden retaining wall
Abuts Locus 17.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. building of the full Propylaeum, including the...
Description Wall of sandstone blocks, hewn and dressed sitting on top of what may be Parr’s “Wall K” (Locus 18) and built up against a retaining or boundary wall oriented north south and running parallel to the East Cryptoporticus Wall of the East Triple Colonnade of the Lower Temenos. Viewed from above, this wall in plan seems to “turn a corner”, running east west to the boundary wall and then turning north south. The inside of this corner is plastered, perhaps to retain soil moisture from the northern garden of the so-called “Lower Market”.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 894.216 m.
Stage Stage 9
Size Approx. 0.80 m in trench (runs into east balk).
Overlies Locus 18.
Phase IV
Combined with None.
Stage Description Construction of Lower Market and boundary walls.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Location In southeast corner of trench.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 16 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 99". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/141fe582-dbf1-444a-fdef-9ac9e5487b0e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2rf5v28x

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