Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Definition	Dark gray soil in deposit (small sondage) under Locus 10
Location	In the northwest of Locus 10 beside the Locus 9 north south wall.
Top (m)	Opening elevation: 891.457 m.
Overlies	Unknown.
Stage	Stage 2
Abuts	Locus 10 collapse and debris.
Description	The reason we decided to excavate Special Project 95 on the west side of Trench 95 (cf. that report after the Trench 95 and 96 reports), was because we thought we might recover the earliest floor deposits to determine when the floor was put in place. What we found was a deposit of Nabataean pottery and thereby better understood that we were in a pre-construction Room phase. These were the earliest so far excavated in the stratigraphy of the Room 1 construction in the PE. We argue that this deposit of Nabataean wares was originally covered over by the Room 1 floor (which was robbed in antiquity). This locus did expose that there were earlier deposits of the PE which were razed or leveled out by the building of the Room 1 and possibly the other rooms, and were therefore considerably earlier than the building and use of these rooms.
Stage Description	Portico Wall of the Propylaeum East and West is constructed.
Size	1.00 in length-by 0.50 m in width.
Bottom (m)	Closing Elevation: 891.007 m.
Phase Description	Phase II: First period of major Nabataean construction at the Great Temple complex in the 1st c. BCE. Portico...
Phase	II
Combined with	None.
Underlies	Locus 10 Collapse soil and debris.