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Overlies Locus 9 Pavement.
Underlies Locus 10 Part III fill and overburden.
Top (m) Top elevation: 888.279 m.
Stage Stage 3
Combined with Locus 18 Drain, Locus 6 and Locus 16 Threshold blockages installed (now removed). Locus 18, Drain opening in the East-West Wall at the south end of Trench 63, Part III.
Phase Description Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. The East, West and South Corridor doorways...
Size This wall is 2.60 m in length-by-2.26 m height on the west and 1.40 m in height on the east end. Its width averages 0.65 m.
Stage Description Southern two doorways of the West Corridor Wall completely blocked.
Description This wall may have been constructed as a dam to regulate the flow of water from the southern slope behind the Great Temple. It is constructed of reused ashlar blocks, set in five courses on the west, but only three courses remain in the east. Many of these blocks were probably cut for the Great Temple construction and were reused to create this “dam.” The bottom course is comprised of regularly cut headers and stretchers and the upper courses are headers, some of which are rounded in shape.
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: 886.019 m.
Phase VI
Abuts Locus 13 the West Corridor Wall and Locus 3 the ‘Byzantine’ Wall.
Definition East-West Wall at the south of Trench 63, Part III.
Location In the south of Trench 63.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 15 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 63". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/2f4e427c-473c-499b-3995-1888815598be> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2765kf13

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