project banner image
Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Stage Description Main construction of the Bath Complex.
Stage Stage 2
Overlies Floors of Chambers 2 and 3.
Combined with
  • The construction of the Bath Complex.
  • The construction of the bath complex.
Abuts The south walls of Chambers 2 and 3.
Preserved Height 1.38 m.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 900.185 m.
Location The doorway between S Rooms Chambers 2 and 3.
Phase Description Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. At this time the northwest subterranean...
Size 2.53 m north south-by-2.15 m east west.
Definition S Rooms Chambers 2 and 3, Shelf for Hypocaust System on south wall
Cuts None.
Underlies Locus 9 and Locus 21.
Description In the doorway between Chambers 1 and 2 is a shelf for the hypocaust system, 1.00 m in east west width standing on square ashlars exhibiting significant burning. Four ashlars are stacked to 0.67 m in height in two rows. At the top of the rows is an ashlar slab, a cross slab 0.79 m in width. Its opening is 0.39 m and it rests on an ashlar platform composed of two large ashlars 1.15 m north south-by-0.60 m in east west width. The south wall has an indentation 1.05 m east west, which may have originally a filled in doorway. This wall has six courses set as stretchers extending to 1.64 m above the ashlar slab. The wall bears heavy coats of plaster and remains of flue pipes (tubuli) remain attached to the wall by mortar. Floor tiles and potsherds are also mixed with the cement. This wall may have served as the socle for a superstructure. Vestiges of dark gray soot appeared on all the walls were measured to ascertain the height of the floor for the upper level rooms, 1.48 m above the floor level. The bath system seems to have been planned as a single unit and it appears that it is on the same axis of orientation as the Great Temple, northwest to southeast. This locus along with others of the bath complex appears to be self-contained elements in an overall design that physically distinguish different areas of the baths.
Phase VI
Bonds to None.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 898.805 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 29 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 127". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/2dc4e1b1-7237-4a61-1bf0-f529c87b646c> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k20p15099

Editorial Status
●●●○○
Copyright License

To the extent to which copyright applies, this content carries the above license. Follow the link to understand specific permissions and requirements.

Required Attribution: Citation and reference of URIs (hyperlinks)