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Description A curious later wall which seems to have little relation to the walls on either side of it; barely touching Locus 89 Room 3 north wall/ Room 4 south wall. It consists of eight courses of irregularly shaped blocks. Some remnants of plaster adhering to the very bottom southeast corner of the wall were found. Locus 88 is certainly a later wall which seems to have changed the existing architecture for no clear reason.
Size 1.64 m length-by-0.50 m width-by-1.900 m height.
Definition East wall of Room 3
Underlies None.
Stage Description Expansions in the southeast and southwest including the east and north walls of Room 3, and the south wall of Room 4. May be in Phase VI or VII.
Phase V
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs. The East 'Cistern' is used for storage and possibly...
Overlies Locus 90 Room 3 earlier north wall and unnamed possible water channels.
Abuts Locus 89 Room 3 north wall/ Room 4 south wall and Locus 20 Room 1 north wall/ Room 3 south wall.
Top (m) Opening Depth: 906.688 m.
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: 906.138 m.
Bonds to None.
Stage Stage 5a
Location In the central east of the domestic structure, between Room 3 and unexcavated area.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 88 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/4bcd652e-49e8-407c-c78c-babc3d15513e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k24t6pz7m

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