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Size This opening for a missing pavement block measures 0.55 m north south-by-1.075 m east west-by-0.14 m in depth.
Abuts Locus 10 pavement.
Overlies Foundation of the Pavement Locus 10.
Stage Stage 5
Bottom (m) Closing Elevation: - 0.14 m below the Level of the Locus 10 Pavement or 892.41 m.
Stage Description Tile flooring added to the north side of the trench (post-dating the original limestone pavement.)
Underlies Loci 1 and 9 soil and debris.
Bonds to Locus 10 pavement.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. repairs following a more collapse. Building of the Propylaeum Central...
Phase VII
Description This area has been built up with foundation stones and leveled out with plaster for the setting of the Locus 10 Pavement. Why has this paver been removed? It is placed directly in front of the betyls to the west and may have been positioned and removed in antiquity to serve as a place for obeisance and prayer (?)
Combined with None.
Top (m) Opening elevation: Locus 10 Pavement or 892.550 m.
Location Just to the west in front of the betyl wall.
Definition Missing Paver in the Locus 10 limestone pavement in front of the twin betyls
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 14 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/e92d006b-6325-4b6a-2601-2def0974196f> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2dv1n42z

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