y a low fence, which ran from
east to west across the inner court, from the partition wall separating
the third and fourth halls to the buildings which divided the inner
court from the outer. It is probable that this division separated the
male and female apartments. The female ornamentation of the large hall
(No. II.) belonging to the southern group is perhaps an indication of
the sex of its inmates; and another sign that these were the female
quarters is to be found in the direct communication existing between
this portion of the building and "the Temple" (No. VIII.), which could
not be reached from the male apartments except by a long circuit round
the building.

The "Temple" itself was an apartment of a square shape, each side being
about forty feet. It was completely surrounded by a vaulted passage,
into which light came from two windows at its south-west and north-west
corners. The Temple was entered by a single doorway, the position of
which was directly opposite an opening leading into the passage from
Hall No. II. Above this doorway was a magnificent frieze, the character
of which is thought to indicate the religious purpose of the structure.
[PLATE V. Fig. 1.] The interior of the Temple was without ornamentation,
vaulted, and except for the feeble light which entered by the single
doorway, dark. On the west side a portal led into the passage from the
outer air.

[Illustration: PLATE 5.]

Besides these main apartments, the edifice which we are describing
contained a certain number of small rooms, lying behind the halls, and
entered by doorways opening from them. One or two such rooms are
found behind each of the smaller halls; and another of somewhat larger
dimensions lay behind the great hall (numbered VII. in the plan),
forming the extreme north-western corner of the building. These rooms
were vaulted and had no windows, receiving their only light from the
small doorways by which they were entered.

It is believed that the entire edifice, or at any rate the greater
portion of it, had an upper story. Traces of such a structure appear
over the halls numbered I and VI.; and it is thought that the story
extended over the entire range of halls. One traveller, on conjectural
grounds, even assigns to the building an elevation of three stories, and
ventures to restore the second and third in the mode represented in the
woodcut. [PLATE V. Fig. 2.] According to this author the upper portion
of the edifice rese