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Stage Description West blocking wall installed.
Bottom (m) Closing Levels: 895.36 m.
Overlies Locus 17.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. repairs following a more collapse. Building of the Propylaeum Central...
Definition West Vault Springers
Location West.
Phase VII
Size Dimensions: 5.00 m long-by-0.65 m high, width unknown.
Stage Stage 2b
Top (m) Opening Levels: 896.01 m.
Description A continuous vault springer carried on the west ledge and blocking/vaulting wall. The vaulting is fairly well constructed of squared sandstone blocks, and is preserved in most places to two courses. Its underlying relationship (or really, the underlying relationship of the whole wall complex of Loci 13, 17, and 18) is unknown since the bottom of the complex was not reached this season.
Underlies Unknown.
Combined with None.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 13 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 82". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/cca0b74a-cc5f-49d3-e81c-cfe33bd61da0> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k28d00h1f

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