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Stage Description Substructures and canalization for temple staircases and Lower Temenos Retaining Wall built.
Bottom (m) Closing depth: Unknown.
Description Locus 19 is a bedding of coarse, compacted, sandy soil of color 7.5YR 4/6 (strong brown) with pebbles, cobbles, slabs of limestone and sandstone, bits of charcoal and plaster. It supports the curbstone (Locus 20), which is damaged and robbed-out in many areas. South of the curbstone and north of the foundation for the Retaining Wall (Locus 21), a gap runs above Locus 19 which was probably filled by the lead pipe (Locus 13) or some other canalization feature. There has been no excavation under this locus.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is...
Top (m) Opening depth: 898.936 m at west; 898.916 m at east.
Stage Stage 1a/1b
Definition Bedding for curb.
Phase IV
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 19 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 18". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/cba999ab-14b5-429f-1e50-138977da8394> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2f19229g

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