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Underlies None.
Size 0.60 m width-by-2.460 m height.
Bottom (m) Closing Levels: 908.790 m.
Definition Room B Tall niche on the interior of the Locus 45 East Perimeter Wall
Overlies None.
Location Built into the interior (eastern) face of Locus 1, East Perimeter Wall. About 1.00 m north of the corner between Locus 1 and the northern face of Locus 4.
Combined with Locus 1.
Description Narrow tall niche. It is wider at the bottom and gets narrower at the top. At the bottom, the niche was built with one finely dressed, thin sandstone as a base. Its purpose is unknown but it is definitely related to the other, smaller and wider niche inside Locus 1 referred to below as Locus 44.
Top (m) Opening Levels: 911.250 m. (preserved height)
Suggested Citation

Martha Sharp Joukowsky. (2007) "Locus 43 from Asia/Jordan/Petra Great Temple/Upper Temenos/Trench 84 and Special Project 91". In Petra Great Temple Excavations. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed). Released: 2007-11-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/a10709ac-96ee-430d-8f2f-7dde5aa3beec> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k20007g56

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