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Relations Covered by Fill/Locus 1. Built up to the N face of the Cavea's West Cuneous Locus 9 and the east face of the Erika Column. Covers the south half of the stone platform in the south of Trench 40 (see report). Equal to the Fill/Debris Loci 4, 6, and 13.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Top (m) Top elevation: 908.856 m.
Phase
Phase Description
Stage Stage 4
Description Fill/Debris to the north of the Cavea's West Cuneous Locus 9 and east of the Erika Column. This locus fills the area where the north face of the Cavea originally stood. This wall was completely blown away by the collapse of the West Colonnade and West Inter-Columnar Wall into the Theater area. It consists of architectural debris and sandy fill. (Seq. 47079).
Definition Fill/debris.
Size Measurements: 4.40 m in length (east-west), 2.10 m in width (north-south); 3.0 m in depth.
Bottom (m) Bottom elevation: 905.856 m at the west, 905.836 m at the east.
Stage Description Major collapse of the temple structure and the accumulation of architectural debris over the orchestra floor and the lower Theater seats.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 5 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 47". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/c35ac51e-fa11-4746-c3ba-a20afc3d9022> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2j96864w

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