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Architectural or Soil Locus? Soil
Stage Description 2nd period of reuse: burning. Either a squatter settlement or an industrial installation.
Description This soil is a 5 YR 4/2 (Dark Reddish Gray) color. Localized loose ashy lens, relatively thick, in center of trench concentrated in area over the north south staircase from the adytus maximus to diazoma (Locus 12) and the rows of stones (Locus 8). It clearly represents a second, later phase of reuse, though in what capacity is uncertain—relatively little artifactual material was recovered, except for burned pieces of ashy gray mortar. Perhaps mortar was being collected and burned here for lime, but it is difficult to be sure.
Phase X
Phase Description Phase X: Site abandonment post major collapse dating to the Byzantine period from the CE 4th to 5th c, Upper...
Definition Ash Lens
Bottom (m) Closing Levels: 905.846 masl.
Stage Stage 6
Top (m) Opening Levels: 906.526 masl.
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 5 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Temple/Trench 62". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/cab80581-1f2a-44c8-c66a-1d3ec62e0e9e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k22z1bn4v

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