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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Size Unknown.
Stage Stage 2
Top (m) Opening Elevation: 912.979 m.
Description This soil locus contained part of some sort of collapsed wall in the form of a series of stones in all sorts of sizes, most of which seemed to be hewn sandstone blocks. These might very well be part of the original uppermost courses of the Locus 1 wall. In terms of inclusions, there was nothing more than stones in this matrix so nothing was collected.
Phase
Phase Description
Overlies Locus 3 wall and Locus 6 sediment.
Bottom (m) Closing Elevation: 911.759 m.
Definition Wall Collapse
Stage Description Partial collapse of the architecture and the accumulation of sediment and debris.
Location On top of the eastern side of the Locus 3 wall and also covering the top of the Locus 6 soil locus.
Underlies Locus 0.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 2 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 91". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/c822b45a-ed59-4d33-97e4-d9d309b217f7> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2xd10s0t

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