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Size 2.0 m north south-by-2.90 m east west.
Stage Description Floor leveling.
Location North end W CP East, area of robbed pavers (Tr. 97, 2004, Locus 23).
Description A leveling course of generally flat, dry laid stones that are tightly fitted together. The course includes rough hewn boulders, wadi/field stones, and a single sandstone ashlar in reuse (AF-2, Seq. No. SP105030). Embedded between two of the stones a coin (SF-11, Seq. No. SP105068) was recovered.
Overlies Locus 8.
Phase V
Stage Stage 4
Preserved Height ca. 0.11 m.
Abuts Loci 5, 22, 23.
Combined with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (?), 6, 8, 24.
Definition Stone leveling course
Top (m) Opening elevation: 892.608 m.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 892.498 m.
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs.
Underlies Locus 6, 24.
Bonds to None.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 7 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Special Project 105". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/492a9eb0-b1b1-4d66-00f3-2acb968ee914> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2794840h

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