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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Stage Stage 2
Stage Description Placement of a new ceramic tile floor with subfloor fill of ballista balls.
Description Thin layer of gray mortar beneath ceramic floor tiles, placed as a subfloor layer into which ceramic floor tiles were placed. Munsell 2.5 YR 6/2 Pale red, mortar with small fragments of charcoal inclusions.
Underlies Locus 1.
Phase Description Phase VII: Roman mid CE 2nd c. repairs following a more collapse. Building of the Propylaeum Central...
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 892.618 m at center, 892.573 m at east.
Location Patchy preservation over entire area of trench, although primarily in the south.
Phase VII
Overlies Loci 2, 3, 7, 10, 18.
Definition Gray mortar beneath the ceramic tiles
Top (m) Opening elevation: 892.628 m at center, 892.583 m at east.
Combined with Loci 1-3, 6-13, 15-19.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 5 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Propylaeum/Special Project 87". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/bf624ff7-6cae-41b4-8aca-6c1176cab717> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2474gg77

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