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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 899.526 m asl at center, 899.676 m asl at west.
Top (m) Opening elevation: 899.726 m asl at west, 899.556 m asl at center, 899.616 m asl at south.
Phase XI
Stage Description Destruction and abandonment. Deposition of later collapse material and the accumulation of topsoil.
Description Rough plaster layer of off-white, underlying the painted plaster Locus 19 in some locations. Covers a large area of the trench, possibly sealing the loci underneath. It looks like bedding for the painted plaster, as it is not finished. In some areas it could have been a rough, white wall that would have been exposed, as there was no painted plaster above it. These portions approximately match some plaster found adhering to Loci 3 and 15.
Phase Description Phase XI: Further collapse post- CE 5th c., possibly the result of the earthquake of CE 512. Major collapses...
Definition Rough plaster.
Stage Stage 6
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 20 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 31 and Special Project 41". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/f52ef805-352a-4ec0-f854-7a1658216036> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2w66k24w

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