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Top (m) Opening Levels: Sub datum 85C – 5.31 m.
Definition Foundation course for southernmost east west colonnade
Stage Description Building and plastering of the temple distyle columns
Overlies Loci 26, 29.
Bottom (m) Closing Levels: Sub datum 85C – 5.40 m.
Stage Stage 2
Underlies Loci 6, 8, 10, 12.
Phase II
Combined with None.
Location Beneath the southernmost east west colonnade.
Phase Description Phase II: First period of major Nabataean construction at the Great Temple complex in the 1st c. BCE. The...
Description Rising 0.09 m above the builders’ trench extending to its south, this sandstone leveling course effectively acts as a thin stylobate for the southernmost east west colonnade. The stones are hewn, but not dressed, and extend between the plinths of each of the columns in the colonnade. While the individual sections of the foundation course between each set of adjacent columns are not connected architecturally, they have been combined as one locus as they are likely component parts of the same constructional event.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 28 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 85". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/a243b488-b7b7-44d2-c3b9-e3c7e0a27742> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k21n8693g

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