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Combined with Locus 1 Lower Temenos Retaining Wall.
Top (m) Opening elevation: Approximately 894.325 m.
Location In the Locus 1 Lower Temenos Retaining Wall, east sector.
Phase Description Phase VI: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. building of the full Propylaeum, including the...
Size This niche is 1.10 m in height-by-0.70 m in width.
Stage Stage 4a
Underlies The fifth course from the top of the Lower Temenos Retaining Wall, Trench 95 Locus 1. It was covered over by the collapse and debris of Locus 4.
Bonds to Locus 1 Lower Temenos Retaining Wall. Cuts: Into the Locus 1 Lower Temenos Retaining Wall.
Phase VI
Abuts Locus 1 Lower Temenos Retaining Wall. It may actually be part of it.
Overlies Six lower courses of the Lower Temenos Retaining Wall, Trench 95 Locus 1.
Definition Niche in the Locus 1 East Sector
Stage Description Wall K constructed. (no vestiges remain in the east). Propylaeum Retaining Wall is built.
Description This irregular niche is located 3.03 m from the west face of Trenches 95 and 96 Locus 8 wall to the east side, and is 1.83 m from the west side to the Locus 9 wall west face.
Bottom (m) Closing Elevation: 893.225 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 12 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 95". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/3c8afa1b-8785-4b9f-c61c-aee9d2e8c5fa> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2tx3f53k

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