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Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is...
Location In southeast corner of cistern, to the southwest side of the shaft.
Description A narrow, well built stone and plaster wall to support the overhang to the southwest of the cistern shaft where the canalization feeds it. This wall is presumably from the early phases of construction, as it would have been a necessary support element from the initial phases of building, and appears to be very well constructed. Because the south wall, Locus 10, is much shoddier in construction, and extends up to this smaller wall, it is logical to infer that Locus 10 is a later addition.
Relations Abutted by: Locus 10, south wall in cistern.
Definition Short support wall to the southwest of cistern shaft
Stage Description Cutting and furnishing of the cistern and overlying and connecting canalization.
Stage Stage 1
Underlies Locus 4, bedrock, where it is cut for the shaft and runs into the cistern.
Size 0.99 m in southeast to northwest length-by- 0.63 m in southwest to northeast width -by-1.38 m in depth as far as can be seen at this time (to the level of cistern fill).
Phase IV
Abuts Locus 4, bedrock.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 22 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Special Project 85". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1dd91fb1-5662-4db9-0827-11c4bc1951fd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k28k7dj36

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