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Stage Description Main construction of the Bath Complex.
Combined with The construction of the bath system.
Underlies Locus 40.
Abuts The west wall of S Rooms Chamber 1.
Preserved Height 0.045 m in diameter.
Stage Stage 2
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 899.484 m.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 899.529 m.
Cuts The west wall of South Rooms Chamber 1, the loutron.
Overlies Locus 36.
Phase Description Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. At this time the northwest subterranean...
Size Unknown, but the size of the pipe is 0.045 m in diameter.
Phase VI
Description This pipe is piercing the wall of S Rooms Chamber 1. It is lined with lead. It is direct line with a makeshift canalization system extending from Chamber 1’s northeast wall. The opening of the pipe abuts onto a flat stone that has been jammed into place. It cuts into the west wall of South Rooms Chamber 1 and it is bonded to it as well. It can be assumed that the water was carried perhaps by pipe into the canalization of Locus 34, although no extension for it has been found. The bath system seems to have been planned as a single unit and it appears that it is on the same axis of orientation as the Great Temple, northwest to southeast. This locus along with others of the bath complex appears to be self-contained elements in an overall design that physically distinguish different areas of the baths.
Location In Trench 127 west.
Bonds to None.
Definition S Rooms Chamber 1, Pipe
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 35 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 127". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/a6c0f934-852d-45cf-f843-5b5769c2619c> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2086bj99

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