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Stage Description West blocking wall installed.
Location Center.
Top (m) Opening Levels: 896.65 m.
Size Dimensions: 2.70 m long-by-0.40 m wide-by-0.50 m high.
Definition Fill Behind East Vault Springers
Overlies Loci 11, 14.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. repairs following a more collapse. Building of the Propylaeum Central...
Description Coarse rubble fill of small, roughly squared sandstone blocks and cobbles, filling the wedge-shaped gap formed by the rear faces of the east vault springer and the west face of the earlier middle stylobate wall of the East Colonnade. This fill functioned, ostensibly, as a leveling fill for the flat ceiling members carried by the later continuous vault.
Phase VII
Stage Stage 2b
Underlies Unknown.
Combined with None.
Bottom (m) Closing Levels: 896.14 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 23 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/fa55fb5c-ed8e-41a0-724b-7ab17c7a16ee> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2t72h267

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