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Top (m) Opening Levels: 905.366 masl.
Definition East West Stylobate/Threshold Foundation
Description A stylobate or threshold foundation extending east west between the foundations of the Pierre Anta and the Temple East Exteior Wall, approx. 2.70 m long-by-1.60 m wide. Although it abuts these features, it is assigned to Phase I because it is almost identical in construction technique with Locus 73 (stylobate of the interior colonnade): it is built of hewn (but unfinished) oblong limestone blocks with mud mortar and smaller stones between. Most of this feature was in fact excavated in previous seasons; only the southern edge falls within Trench 62.
Stage Stage 1
Phase II
Stage Description Temple distyle columns erected.
Phase Description Phase II: First period of major Nabataean construction at the Great Temple complex in the 1st c. BCE. The...
Bottom (m) Closing levels: Unknown.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 74 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 62". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1bad773c-f5a0-4a3c-06c4-1bbb5a5445d2> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2ng4rf94

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