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Location In the west of Trench 71 — the continuation of fill found in Trench 31 excavated in 1996.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Stage Description Deposits from the agricultural use of the area by Bedouin farmers.
Phase XIV
Overlies Unknown.
Underlies Topsoil.
Size 2.50 m–by-1.36 m-by-1.25 m in depth.
Phase Description Phase XIV: Modern period marked by Bedouin activity and the accumulation of recent debris.
Top (m) Opening elevation: From Sub datum E, - 0.45 m, or 899.71 m.
Definition Earth between walls of Loci 22 and 23 Feeding Chamber
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: - 1.25 m from Sub datum 71 E, or 898.91 m.
Combined with None.
Bonds to None.
Stage Stage 6
Description This locus rests between two walls Loci 21 and 22. It is a deposit that is light reddish brown Munsell 5YR6/4 in color. Many roof tiles were associated with this deposit which may have been part of a feeding chamber for whatever firing was going on to the east of the Locus 21 Wall.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 20 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Trench 71". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/fcd26090-84d9-46dc-8c5c-3a3bd701c73a> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2fb5514f

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