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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is...
Combined with Loci 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19 and 21.
Overlies Unknown.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 903.434 m.
Stage Stage 4
Definition Floor bedding
Underlies Locus 11.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 903.544 m.
Stage Description Construction and early use of architectural features belonging to the temple's tetrastyle in antis expansion.
Location Underneath the hexagonal pavement of the Shrine Room North Corridor, Locus 11.
Phase IV
Description Locus 20 is a subfloor layer of Munsell 7.5YR4/6 strong brown compacted silty soil matrix of fine consistency. The deposit measures 0.36 m north south (exposed)-by-0.16 m east west (exposed) and is located directly underneath the hexagonal pavement of the Baroque Room north corridor. Materials found in this deposit include one piece of pottery and trace amounts of bone. The date of the pottery should aid in the dating of the construction of the hexagonal pavement.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 20 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Special Project 96". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/48db9273-2c03-493e-574a-8166cd9b39fd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2xd1083j

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