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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Size Approximately 3.70 m north south-by-6.70 m east west.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Preserved Height 2.59 m.
Overlies Floor of the north chambers 2 and 3.
Combined with Locus 21 the fill and debris in the south structure, and perhaps Locus 15 the fill of the Rectangular Structure Locus 16.
Definition N Rooms, Chambers 2 and 3, Debris and Collapse
Stage Stage 5
Phase
Stage Description Collapse and abandonment.
Phase Description
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 900.569 m.
Description The soil of this destruction level is a Munsell Brown 7.5YR 5/3. It is a consistent thick dusty deposit with collapsed ashlars and opus sectile elements, crushed brick, gravel aggregate, and mortar. The ceramic corpus is primarily composed of broken flue pipes or tubuli.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 901.136 m.
Location On the north side of the trench.
Underlies Locus 9.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 19 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/99155d9f-651d-47b0-583e-d4f9ce29b483> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2zg6qm3m

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