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Definition Rock fall.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. collapse and repairs. Aboveground canalization cut into the bedrock in the...
Stage Stage 3
Stage Description Later building stage following the disuse of the stairway to the Paradesios. Entrance between the Paradesios and the Great Temple precinct blocked.
Phase VII
Top (m) Opening elevation: 905.976 m.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: Indeterminate.
Description An area of large, fallen rocks, possibly from the walls in this area. The rocks are not worked, but are medium-sized, sandstone pieces that are typical of the walls in this area. This locus is probably originally overlain by Locus 6, fill, but Locus 8 washed away Locus 6 and came down on Locus 9. This rock fall is slightly north of the middle of the west half of the trench and may have been partly disturbed by the laying of the drain pipe (Locus 29). This locus has been phased here for lack of any evidence suggesting other phasing.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 9 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 44". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/ac1fdda3-d3b2-4955-4901-2300b0346b78> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2rr1zf38

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