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Top (m) Opening elevation: 892.034 m.
Stage Description Portico Wall and doorway through wall.
Stage Stage 3
Size Approx. 1.70 m in length, 0.75 m in width.
Description Doorway/threshold, set into the Portico Wall in the northeast part of the trench, and allowing access to the room floored with small hexagonal pavers. The threshold feature is not well preserved and shows only irregular sandstone chunks mortared together; this is in fact most likely bedding for a threshold block that might have been made of limestone or marble. The west door jamb is not preserved; the jamb might exist on the east but this area was unexcavated.
Phase Description Phase II: First period of major Nabataean construction at the Great Temple complex in the 1st c. BCE. Portico...
Phase II
Definition Doorway in the Portico Wall
Location Northeast of trench, in Portico Wall.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 891.874 m.
Overlies Locus 15.
Abuts Loci 36, 37, 40.
Combined with None.
Underlies Locus 9.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 38 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 99". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/64e355dc-550d-4854-0c30-54c2f1a44986> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2pz58x94

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