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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Size 6.80 m length-by-3.83 m width.
Definition Room 2 Major Destruction
Top (m) Opening Depth: 911.396 m.
Overlies Locus 55 Room 2 south pier, Locus 58 Room 2 south column, Locus 111 Room 1 west wall/ Room 2 southeast wall, Locus 12 threshold between Cave1 and Room 2, Locus 83 steps into Cave 2, Locus 82 Room 2 floor, Locus 85 Room 2 north column, Locus 86 Room 2 north pier.
Stage Description Major destruction period.
Location In the center of the Residential Quarter.
Description Consisted of a Light Brown (Munsell 7.5 YR 6/4) soil matrix. This deep and very large locus contained a significant deposit of massive ashlars. Most of these appeared to be arch stones and wall ashlars that probably collapsed from the original architecture above. The locus itself is probably made up of washed down debris from above, possibly from a heavy rain that knocked down part of the already fragile architecture as it deposited in this area.
Phase Description Phase IX: Major CE 363 earthquake leads to the collapse of large architectural features and the primary...
Stage Stage 7
Phase IX
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: 907.006 m.
Underlies Soil Locus 3.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 43 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 94". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/2971f301-6af0-4624-a020-1b6408879b6e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k21v5kq97

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