Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Phase	XI XII XIII
Bottom (m)	Closing levels: 909.146 m in center.
Phase Description	Phase XII: Use levels, robbing and abandonments continue. Phase XI: Further collapse post CE 5th c., possibly the result of the earthquake of CE 512. The east Porch columns and Central Arch collapse and fluvial deposits continue ... Phase XIII: Major collapses continue into the Islamic period.
Top (m)	Opening levels: 909.946 m at northwest, 910.186 m at north, 910.746 m at center, unknown at southwest (in East Corridor).
Definition	South Doorway Overburden.
Stage	Stage 8
Stage Description	Secondary collapse from major seismic activity. Columns collapse.
Combined with	None.
Description	This is a Light Brown (Munsell 7.5 YR 6/4), coarse, loose, sandy, overburden layer, which includes area within and immediately adjacent to the doorway. The deposit contains coarser soil and includes more unhewn boulders and collapsed ashlars and columns than Locus 22. One of the columns removed from the doorway contained an incised Mason’s Mark (Seq. No. 73182), and the diameters of the columns ranged from 0.49 m, 1.06 m to 1.15 m. Diameters of the half and full column drums, may correspond with those from the Neil and Suleiman columns in the Upper Temenos. Stone architectural fragments from capitals were also included in the fill.