Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Definition	West Stairway, Monica Stairway.
Phase Description	Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs, including the addition of the Theater, intercolumnar...
Phase	V
Stage	Stage 1c
Size	Measurements: 3.43 m in height (as currently excavated), 5.7 m in length (as currently excavated), 2.2m in width.
Top (m)	Top elevation: 910.246 m at top landing.
Bottom (m)	Bottom elevation: 906.816 m at bottom excavated step (not the floor).
Stage Description	Interior vaulted chamber's walls built.
Description	North-south interior western staircase, the Monica Stairway, between the west Inter-Columnar Wall (Locus 42) and the interior wall (Locus 22) and connecting the bottom floor with the second-story landing. Constructed of a bedding of irregular stone rubble and yellow clay and paved with rectangular, sandstone pavers. Plaster was used as a mortar under the pavers. The pavers of the top 11 steps were completely robbed away in antiquity; only small pavers abutting the walls remain of the next three steps. The heavy stone debris from the collapsed Column Locus C5-B (David) prevented the robbing out of the large rectangular pavers of the lowest four excavated steps, which remain in situ. (See Trench 9, 1994 Final Report for additional documentation.)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Architectural