Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Top (m)	Opening depth: 902.476 m at center, 904.136 m at south.
Bottom (m)	Closing depth: 899.136 m at north; 900.016 m at center; 900.906 m at south.
Phase	XI XII X IX XIII
Phase Description	Phase X: Site abandonment after major collapse dating to the Byzantine period from the CE 4th to 5th c. New... Phase IX: Major CE 363 earthquake leads to the collapse of large architectural features and the primary... Phase XII: Use levels, robbing and abandonments continue. Upper levels of fluvial wash are deposited. Rooms A and B are abandoned. Phase XIII: Major collapses continue into the Islamic period. Phase XI: Further collapse post-CE 5th c., possibly the result of the earthquake of 512. Fill accumulates...
Description	Locus 5 is an important rubble fill, coarse and silty, color 5YR 3/3 (dark reddish brown), with considerable inclusions of stones and artifactual material. It overlies the stairs (Locus 7) and the thin, reddish, sandy layer (Locus 9) which sometimes is seen immediately above the stairs. It also lies between the two walls, Loci 4 and 6.
Stage Description	Major destruction level marked by the accumulation of later fill following the disuse of the complex.
Stage	Stage 6
Definition	Rubble fill.