Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Size	0.56 m north south-by-0.29 m east west.
Bottom (m)	Closing Elevation: A – 2.085 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Definition	Brown Soil Beneath Gray Soil (Locus 5)
Top (m)	Opening Elevation: A – 1.92 m.
Overlies	Loci 7, 8.
Stage Description	Initial construction of the terracotta floor.
Phase Description	Phase VI: Late Nabataean ca. 106 CE period of minor collapse and repairs. Collapse of the south gallery...
Stage	Stage 1
Location	The north portion of the sondage, beneath the two northern fully exposed terracotta tiles.
Combined with	Loci 4, 5, 7, 8.
Phase	VI
Underlies	Loci 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Description	Locus 6 had a Munsell Color of 10YR 4/4. It was moist, fine, soil with pebble and cobble inclusions. Bone and pottery were scarce. It enveloped the rubble leveling course (Locus 7), and in retrospect may actually be the same soil strata as Locus 8. It was a construction level for the terracotta tiled floor.