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Top (m) Opening elevation: 905.996 m at northwest, 906.296 m at northeast, 905.756 m at southwest, 906.296 m at southeast, 907.476 m at center.
Stage Description Subsequent period of abandonment and debris accumulation following the temple's major collapse. Accumulated...
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Stage Stage 3 con't
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Phase Description
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 905.856 m at northwest, 906.056 m at northeast, 905.756 m at southwest, 905.956 m at southeast, 905.606 m at center.
Description This locus consisted of a red-brown (5YR 6/3) soil, loosely packed with yellow-green clay inclusions recorded as roof fall materials in the exterior corridor excavations. The roof fall, originally hard-packed, rolled clay, is commonly found near the floor in other excavated sites. In antiquity, the clay, compacted with a stone roller over a beam and reed under-structure as found, for example, in the restored village at Taiyiba, would fall from these unstable roof areas, during a fire or other disaster, before the wall material. The reeds and beams may have been used subsequently for the fires of passers-by. Some large ashlars were removed along with pottery, metal, bone, glass, stone and tesserae. No archaeological horizon markers were found in this locus.
Definition Soil/fill.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 17 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 40". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/ec50f18f-0733-4e40-9799-f1d7ec12df67> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2cr5wx5s

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