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Stage Description Construction of the East Vaulted Chamber.
Phase Description Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs, including the addition of the Theater, intercolumnar...
Bottom (m) Closing levels: 907.476 m (lowest in situ arch stone).
Phase V
Description Locus 8 represents the vaulted arch sloping down from the south to the north that covered the room in antiquity. All that remains of the vault are six in situ arch stones, five on the West Wall (Locus 4) and one on the East Wall (Locus 3). Two other in situ arch blocks, one arch stone and one voussoir, fell off Locus 3 during the course of excavation; (see sequence numbers 55077 and 55079). A number of arch stones were also found in Locus 1, which represents both Stages 2 and 3.
Underlies Locus 1.
Top (m) Opening levels: 908.496 m (Datum Point 55A).
Stage Stage 1
Overlies Loci 3 and 4.
Location Arch springers located on east and west walls.
Definition Vault
Combined with None.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 8 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 55". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/5f9c9513-03fd-4e19-ca32-2896e058543b> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2w37vc52

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