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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Underlies None.
Definition S Rooms Chamber 5 Fill and Collapse
Stage Stage 5
Phase
Stage Description Collapse and abandonment.
Phase Description
Size 5.60 m-by-5.35 m to 5.60 m.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 903.542 m.
Preserved Height 3.83 m.
Description This homogeneous destruction deposit is a Munsell Light Reddish Brown 2.5YR 6/3 with large amounts of ash lenses, sand, mortar, and randomly distributed stones. The two loci were combined during excavation because it was difficult to distinguish between them.
Overlies Test Trench Locus 30.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 899.709 m.
Location The curvilinear chamber Locus 5 wall.
Combined with Loci 21 and perhaps Locus 19.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 8 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 127". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/92f9fae6-710f-4c77-d2c4-f6db17ead3c9> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2280dn6c

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