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Description ide, 7.5YR 6/4. The Munsell color reading could have been slightly off since the mortar was probably stained from the earth above it and the earth that accumulated on it. It was found sloppily packed against the plaster around the column and above and around the stylobate. The plaster layer on the column that remains was preserved behind the mortar. This mortar lay on top of the layer of abandonment (Locus 6) against and above the stylobate (Locus 10), and against the wall (Locus 11) — it is the same level as the rubble layer (Locus 4) at its lowest east edge. Above it lay the same rubble layer (Locus 4). Underneath it the stylobate was cracked, which could have been the reason why the column was reinforced with mortar.
Stage Description Reconstruction marked by the building of a north south Byzantine wall between the south columns of the West Triple Colonnade.
Stage Stage 3
Phase Description Phase X: Site abandonment post major collapse dating to the Byzantine period from the CE 4th to 5th c....
Bottom (m) Closing elevation: 899.086 m.
Definition Mortar
Phase X
Top (m) Opening elevation: 899.356 m.
Architectural or Soil Locus? Architectural
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 5 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Lower Temenos/Special Project 26". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/2e8eb602-8770-4e5f-2c48-a5b236b6d1bd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2rr1xw64

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