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Stage Stage 3
Phase Description Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. The East, West and South Corridor doorways...
Combined with the Locus 15 East-West Wall, Locus 6 and Locus 16 Threshold blockages installed (now removed). Locus 15 — East-West Wall at the south end of Trench 63, Part III.
Top (m) Top elevation: 2.93 m below Point E or 886.68 m.
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: 3.23 m below Point E or 886.38 m.
Definition Drain in Locus 15.
Abuts The Locus 15 East-West Wall.
Stage Description Southern two doorways of the West Corridor Wall completely blocked.
Underlies The superstructure of the Locus 15 East-West Wall.
Overlies The bottom of the Locus 15 East-West Wall.
Location In the mid-point of the Locus 15 East-West Wall. It is sited 1.77 m west of the West Corridor Wall (Locus 13), and 1.70 m to the ‘Byzantine’ Locus 3 Wall.
Phase VI
Description This water channel is rectangular in shape, and it may have been constructed to regulate the flow of water coming down from the hill from the south of the site.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 18 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/36468b50-8eab-4578-8fe4-5ebd8b4409dd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2gm89n5v

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