Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Abuts	The platform of the West Exedra.
Phase	XIV
Underlies	None.
Definition	Top soil
Size	2.60 m east west-by-6.50 m north south.
Stage Description	Modern soil accumulation.
Phase Description	Phase XIV: Modern period marked by Bedouin activity and the accumulation of recent debris.
Bottom (m)	Closing elevation: - 1.00 m below Pt. 71 A Sub datum, or 898.88 m.
Stage	Stage 7
Combined with	Locus 3.
Top (m)	Opening elevation: - 0.10 m below Sub datum 71 A, or 899.78 m.
Overlies	Hexagonal Pavement of the Lower Temenos.
Bonds to	None.
Location	In the easternmost and most southern Trench 71.
Description	This was an arbitrary designation for 0.10 m of unsealed compacted earth between the terminus of Locus 9 and the easternmost stylobate of the West Triple Colonnade. The loose coarse sandy soil color is a Munsell 7.5YR5/2 and it contains some column plaster fragments with high arises.