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Overlies No foundation trench was attempted this season.
Definition East Anta Doorway
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The tetrastyle in antis temple is built, including...
Stage Stage 2
Stage Description Porch columns, East Corridor Wall and East Porch Anta built.
Underlies Locus 1.
Description The East Anta Doorway located on the north extension of Wall Locus 3, is unique to the building motifs of the Nabataeans.[1] From the door post stones this larger door appears to be part of the initial construction design of the Temple allowing access to the upper Pronaos area from the East Corridor on the east side of the building. The southern door posts are not in as good a state of preservation as those in the west wall Locus 2, prior to the removal of Trench 12's balk. The Northern door post system needs to be reevaluated as well since it will suffer the winter rains. There was a reduction in the size of the doorway to 1.66 m as in Locus 16, Trench 8, 1994, to limit access to the East Anta.
Top (m) Average elevation: 905.806 m.
Phase IV
Size Average Width: 2.82 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 5 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 48". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e2dd5586-67a0-46ae-3289-b9f007827932> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k29z9820p

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