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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Definition Fill Before Floor of Cave 2 or Room 10 and 11
Stage Description Major destruction period.
Size 6.52 m length-by-5.40 m width.
Phase Description Phase IX: Major CE 363 earthquake leads to the collapse of large architectural features and the primary...
Underlies Soil Locus 54.
Stage Stage 7
Bottom (m) Closing Depth: 907.746 m.
Description This was the soil that was closest to the Locus 61 bedrock floor in Cave 2. It is composed of a Strong Brown (Munsell 7.5 YR 3/4) soil matrix, containing numerous material inclusions. It definitely contains material from the hill above that probably mixed with the abandoned material inside Cave 2 when the cave was flooded with sediment.
Top (m) Opening Depth: 908.126 m.
Overlies Locus 61 Floor of Cave 2 or Rooms 10 and 11.
Phase IX
Combined with None.
Location In the southwest of the Residential Quarter.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 60 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/89cb2387-52ac-4a8a-e09a-cd95f0b618af> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2h41t93f

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