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Underlies In the north Locus 4 Collapse and debris.
Definition PE West North South Main Stair Wall
Combined with Trench 95 Locus 6 Wall—earlier stages of the same wall.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 879.949 m.
Location In Trench 95 west providing the west boundary for the trench.
Stage Description Reconfiguration of the Portico Wall with doorways. A north south wall along the side of the central staircase is constructed in the west.
Bottom (m) Closing Elevation: Floor Room 1: 891.517 m.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. repairs following a more collapse. Building of the Propylaeum Central...
Abuts Locus 1 PE East West Lower Temenos Retaining Wall and is abutted by Locus 7 West Face of the Room 1 West Doorway #1 in the Portico Wall.
Phase VII
Cuts None.
Size 10.50 m north south-by-1.36 m in width.
Description This is a massive wall rebuilt in many different stages. It is 15 courses on the inside of Trench 95. One large stretcher in this wall, the third block from the south, measures 1.61 m in length-by-0.40 m in width-by-0.40 m in depth. The adjacent header measures 0.70 m in length-by- 0.46 m in height–by-0.40 m in depth, and the next header measures 0.28 m in width-by-0.46 m in height and 0.40 m in depth.
Stage Stage 5b
Bonds to None.
Overlies Locus 6 Wall extending under the Locus 2 Wall on which Locus 2 was constructed.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 2 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Trench 95". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/d4ad531c-7436-4236-58fa-f674ea43fed5> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2348r44s

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