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Underlies None.
Bonds to Loci 4, 6, and 11, which in turn bond with Locus 5 and the Portico Wall.
Overlies
  • Locus 10 pavement.
  • Locus 10 Pavement.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. building of the full Propylaeum, including the...
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: Locus 10 Pavement on the interior, 892.550 m.
Top (m) Opening elevation: See surveyor’s notes.
Stage Description Construction of Wall K and the Propylaeum Retaining Wall.
Definition Southwest Wall with its earlier and later stages
Description This wall served as the support wall for the PW and the entry into the PW from the Trench 88 Stairway. It extends up to the south balk and set into it is the Locus 11 West Doorway to the north. This wall is comprised of three rows in width with well-fitted and consolidated ashlars, which on its interior face are set as stretchers. It was plastered in antiquity.
Abuts The south balk.
Location In the southwest of Trench 81.
Stage Stage 1
Size This wall extends 4.01 m north south.
Phase IV
Combined with And bonded to Locus 4 South Doorframe, Locus 6 North Doorframe, and Locus 11 Threshold.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 2 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 81". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/d1342035-8471-4677-99ce-5d9cdcc9e7f9> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2kh0pp28

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