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Stage Description Installation of the Hexagonal Pavement and the construction of the West Exedra.
Size Height: 0.15 m, Length: 1.28 m.
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: 898.866 m at north, 898.886 m at south.
Definition Stylobate
Description Locus 10 is the limestone stylobate on which the column (Locus 2) rests. It is rectangular in shape and its east end abuts the curbstones. The later wall/platform (Locus 11) seems to be built up against the stylobate, as well as the column, and the engaged column at the southwest end of Trench 5. Around the column, which rests on Locus 10, there is a layer of preserved plaster which also was once bonded to Locus 10. However, the plaster is later than the column and the stylobate, because it ends at the later wall/platform and does not seem to follow the column all the way around. If it is bonded to the wall/platform (Locus 11), then it must be later than the architectural elements of Stage 1. It might be helpful to excavate to the west of SP 26 in order to verify if there is any plaster on the other side of the column.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The full Lower Temenos is constructed, complete...
Stage Stage 1
Top (m) Top elevation: 899.126 m at north, 899.061 m at south.
Phase IV
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 10 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Special Project 26". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/c23de060-1186-452e-f3ce-d90cfa635125> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2wd3zv55

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