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Abuts ‘Byzantine Platform’ and all architectural loci of Stage 1 building.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Combined with Other burned fills.
Underlies Topsoil.
Stage Stage 4
Phase Description Phase X: Site abandonment post major collapse dating to the Byzantine period from the CE 4th to 5th c....
Description This is a greasy sooty deposit of heavy burning, which extends throughout the trench. It has discolored the extant architecture of the West Colonnade, including the columns and the stylobate of the eastern row of columns and what remains of the middle stylobate course.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: - This deposit is 0.60 m in depth. It closed at approximately - 1.00 m below sub datum 71 B, or 899.63 m.
Size The area of burning is difficult to ascertain because it lenses out and has been leached into other accumulated soils. Its approximate dimensions are 8.00 m east west in the south-by-4.50 m north south in the north. The portion of most concentrated burning measures 1.20 m-by-0.85 m.
Location This deposit which is thicker in the north; closer to the ‘Byzantine Platform’ in the south, it lenses out.
Stage Description Second reuse. Evidence of industrial activity including burning and later architectural installations.
Definition Fill of Heavy Burning from the Industrial Complex
Phase X
Top (m) Opening elevation: - 0.36 m below sub datum 71 B in the south or 900.27 m; - 0.40 m below sub datum 71 B in the north, or 900.23 m.
Bonds to None.
Overlies All architectural loci of Trench 71.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 14 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 71". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/b4c6dc0d-eb4b-46b7-5450-2d0e3283f62c> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2rn37m5h

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