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Stage Description Substructures and canalization for temple staircases and Lower Temenos Retaining Wall built.
Bottom (m) Closing depth: Unknown.
Description Locus 22 is a bedding of coarse, sandy soil, color 5YR 4/4 (reddish brown) with pebbles, cobbles of sandstone, limestone, tile fragments, plaster chunks, ash and other materials. The locus is patchy in some areas and is often uneven and broken where exposed. Excavation has not continued under this locus.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is...
Top (m) Opening depth: 901.406 m at center.
Stage Stage 1a/1b
Definition Bedding for West Stairway.
Phase IV
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 22 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 18". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1e012871-9f73-4a54-684f-7c9ba72ebbd6> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2js9rw34

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