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Stage Description Reinforcement and expansion of the walls in front of Cave 2.
Top (m) Opening Depth: 911.396 m.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is...
Abuts Locus 61 Cave 2 floor, Locus 80 separating wall between Rooms 10 and 11 in Cave 2, Locus 44 Cave 2, Locus 49 Room 8 retaining wall.
Stage Stage 3
Overlies Bedrock.
Size 3.12 m length-by-0.70 m width (max).
Phase IV
Definition Blocking Wall Between Room 8 and Cave 2 or Rooms 10/11
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: 907.676 m.
Bonds to None.
Location In the southwest of the Residential Quarter.
Description A wall which consists of fifteen courses of regularly laid blocks, occasionally with dressing and some with chinking stones.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Underlies Soil Locus 3.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 42 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 94". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/3561a91b-2663-4222-dde0-574506fc4f0d> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2qj7hn5f

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