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Description This deposit is a Munsell 7YR 5/6 and contains weathered debris. This locus was combined with part of Locus 16 and Locus 22 to better define the cistern fill.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Underlies None.
Abuts Loci 18 the Residential Quarter Stairs and the West Wall Locus 20.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 904.446 m, at Sub Datum J.
Location In the west and south.
Combined with Loci 1, 2, 3, 5, 17, 19, 25, 26, 27.
Definition Fill and Debris from Wall Cleaning abutting and over the West Precinct Wall and South Bedrock
Stage Stage 10
Preserved Height Unknown.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 902.196 m, 2.25 m below Sub Datum J.
Stage Description Sedimentation and fill.
Overlies Loci 20 and 31 as well as Locus 27.
Phase Description Phase XIII: Major collapses continue into the Islamic period.
Size 12.30 m north south-by-2.00 m east west.
Phase XIII
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 16 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Special Project 110". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/9b67817e-a682-4eb3-e9d3-060a7ca0fdd3> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2w958545

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