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Stage Description Construction of the outer East Anta walls and threshold.
Underlies Locus 1 topsoil and debris.
Location In the southwest of Trench 64.
Size The east face measures north south 4.30 m-x-1.30 m east west.
Phase Description Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The tetrastyle in antis temple is built, including...
Definition The southern section of the fragmented East Anta Wall.
Abuts Threshold Locus 8, and overburden of debris to the south.
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: Below Point B 1.74 m or 885.91 m.
Stage Stage 1
Description This is a well-constructed wall of large well-hewn diagonally dressed ashlars measuring 1.74 m in height. The extant top course consists of stretcher (0.98 m-0.37 m), header (0.30 m-x-0.38 m), stretcher (1.26 m-0.38 m) and header (0.31 m-x-0.37 m). The second course stretcher, stretcher, header and stretcher. The third course is comprised of header, stretcher, stretcher header and stretcher, and the founding course is stretcher, header and stretcher. These ashlars are well set and are bonded with plaster.
Phase IV
Combined with Threshold Locus 8 and Locus 6, its northern extension.
Top (m) Top elevation: 0.00, at Point B or 887.652 m.
Overlies On the east, Locus 4 of Trench 64. To the west the Temple Pronaos.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 5 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 64". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/fee26b0e-565b-457e-228c-0633b341e9b8> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2n29xj99

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