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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.15680#0077
THE ARCHITECTURE.
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(1) with a portico (13) at the south end, a series of small rooms on the east
side separated by a passage (2) from the niegaron, another room or two (4)
at the north end, and a passage along the west side. The portico is six
metres wide and 4'60 metres deep from back to front. The side walls
remain, and at the end of that on the west side, there is a Square block of
stone, (c) 1-5 metres by -95 metre and -60 metre high. Tins was presumably the
base of an anta. On the top of this block there were found what appeared to
be remains of charred wood, as if the anta had been faced with wood, but
the evidence was too slight to be of any value. The outer step (g), in two
large blocks of stone of slaty texture, remains abnost entire, but there are no
indications of columns. The Hall, the floor of which is on the same level as
Fki. 50.—View of Step of Portico and Pj.inth of Anta.
that of the portico, is entered by a doorway (/) 2'25 m. wide, with a freestone
threshold in one block ('90 m. wide by -35 m. high) remaining in place.
The floor of the hall is formed of a layer of concrete or coarse plaster only
two or three centimetres thick. In the middle of the room there is a rectan-
gular space a, not covered with concrete, but with hardened clay. This
doubtless indicates the size and position of the hearth. The walls of the
hall stand to a height of '25 m. above the floor, but contain no traces of doors
other than that already described.
The rooms on the east side have Moors and thresholds like those of the
hall, but about -30 m. lower. They were probably women's apartments.
That at the north end was possibly a batlnoom.
57
(1) with a portico (13) at the south end, a series of small rooms on the east
side separated by a passage (2) from the niegaron, another room or two (4)
at the north end, and a passage along the west side. The portico is six
metres wide and 4'60 metres deep from back to front. The side walls
remain, and at the end of that on the west side, there is a Square block of
stone, (c) 1-5 metres by -95 metre and -60 metre high. Tins was presumably the
base of an anta. On the top of this block there were found what appeared to
be remains of charred wood, as if the anta had been faced with wood, but
the evidence was too slight to be of any value. The outer step (g), in two
large blocks of stone of slaty texture, remains abnost entire, but there are no
indications of columns. The Hall, the floor of which is on the same level as
Fki. 50.—View of Step of Portico and Pj.inth of Anta.
that of the portico, is entered by a doorway (/) 2'25 m. wide, with a freestone
threshold in one block ('90 m. wide by -35 m. high) remaining in place.
The floor of the hall is formed of a layer of concrete or coarse plaster only
two or three centimetres thick. In the middle of the room there is a rectan-
gular space a, not covered with concrete, but with hardened clay. This
doubtless indicates the size and position of the hearth. The walls of the
hall stand to a height of '25 m. above the floor, but contain no traces of doors
other than that already described.
The rooms on the east side have Moors and thresholds like those of the
hall, but about -30 m. lower. They were probably women's apartments.
That at the north end was possibly a batlnoom.