Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Overlies	Locus 6, second layer of deposit in southwest cistern shaft.
Stage	Stage 5
Phase	XI XII X IX XIII
Phase Description	Phase X: Site abandonment after major collapse dating to the Byzantine period from the CE 4th to 5th c. New... Phase IX: Major CE 363 earthquake leads to the collapse of large architectural features and the primary... Phase XII: Use levels, robbing and abandonments continue. Upper levels of fluvial wash are deposited. Rooms A and B are abandoned. Phase XIII: Major collapses continue into the Islamic period. Phase XI: Further collapse post-CE 5th c., possibly the result of the earthquake of 512. Fill accumulates...
Size	1.10 m in north south diameter-by-1.14 m in east west diameter-by-0.86 m in depth.
Description	This layer of fill was quite loose and probably represents mostly debris having fallen into the southwest cistern shaft after it became opened during the 2001-2002 winter. A good portion of the shaft was empty above this level (over two meters), and this layer was excavated only until firmer soil was reached. Only one day was spent excavating this fill, which turned up some Nabataean painted wares and a metal nail, but no artifacts of special importance, and had a Munsell color of 7.5YR 4/3 Brown.
Stage Description	Continued accumulation of debris in the canalization channels.
Definition	Top layer of fill in southwest shaft
Combined with	Loci 6 and 7, lower levels of fill in southwest cistern shaft.
Top (m)	Opening Elevation: 0.00 m below Sub datum 90 B or 2.99 m below Sub datum 90 A or 903.319 m.
Bottom (m)	Closing Elevation: 0.86 m below Sub datum 90 B or 3.85 m below Sub datum 90 A or 902.459 m.