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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Stage Description Abandonment and early fill accumulation. Some materials mixed in with debris from locus 3 in Phase IX.
Stage Stage 2
Phase VIII
Description This is the earth collapse and fill within the East Exedra from the east wall of the structure to 2.10 m west. Its fine, dry, loose earth is a Munsell reddish brown, 5YR 5/4. It is filled with collapsed ashlars and medium amounts of pottery. An additional day was spent on cleaning the interior buttresses. The southeastern buttress is five courses in height, two courses wide and measures 1.64 m in width. The northeastern buttress is two blocks in width and, at this time, is 1.33 m in height and 1.28 m in width. The southeast buttress is three blocks in height and 1.36 m in width.
Definition Collapse and fill.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 905.156 m.
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 904.306 m.
Phase Description Phase VIII: Brief (?) period of abandonment marked by a thin layer of (largely) chocolate brown clean soil. ...
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 2 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 37". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e5993850-864e-4995-f0be-0c4b75489892> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2zk5dx61

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