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7i8 UPPER PORCH AND APPROACH TO CENTRAL HALL
A column-base has therefore been restored at this point which forms
the centre of the South line of the antechamber in question. It may have
received light on the West side from a window opening on the 'Upper Long
Corridor'.
The Northern boundary of this space, by which access was afforded to
the principal Columnar Hall beyond, corresponds with a well-marked line of
upper doorways, almost continuous remains of which have been preserved
East of this section. As to the arrangement in the section itself, evidence
is wanting, but it has been thought best in the restoration (see Fig. 449 and
Plan C) to adopt the plan of a central block of wall with a doorway on
either side, as best shutting out the interior of the ' Tri-columnar Hall'
from the Porch. This was desirable not only for the sake of privacy, but
in order the better to mask the fact that the axial disposition of this Hall
differs from that of the system of approach from the South, owing to its
widening out on its Eastern border.
The antechamber, thus delimited with its columnar opening on the side
of the Upper Propylaeum Porch, giving access on its opposite border to the
main ceremonial hall, and connected by the cross passage-way with the open
corridor leading to the other upper halls, must have been a much frequented
lobby and the true foyer for the whole West Section of the Palace. Its walls
may well have exhibited a processional scheme of decoration similar to that
of the lower hall of the Propylaeum and of the entrance Corridor beyond.
The view, Fig. 449, looking South from near the West column-base of
the central, three-columned Hall, gives a good view of this lobby in its
relation to the surrounding structures. Parts of the upper floor are here
shown as restored in ferro-concrete, with the door-jambs of the Upper Porch
beyond, and to the right the limestone jambs of two Magazines belonging to
the open ' Upper Long Corridor', while a section of the Lower Long Corri-
dor is seen below. Beyond rises the restored bay of the lower Propylaeum
Hall, and on the opposite slope, directly facing, appears the Stepped Pavilion
and adjoining bath chamber of the ' Caravanserai'. On the horizon is the
peak of Juktas.
A column-base has therefore been restored at this point which forms
the centre of the South line of the antechamber in question. It may have
received light on the West side from a window opening on the 'Upper Long
Corridor'.
The Northern boundary of this space, by which access was afforded to
the principal Columnar Hall beyond, corresponds with a well-marked line of
upper doorways, almost continuous remains of which have been preserved
East of this section. As to the arrangement in the section itself, evidence
is wanting, but it has been thought best in the restoration (see Fig. 449 and
Plan C) to adopt the plan of a central block of wall with a doorway on
either side, as best shutting out the interior of the ' Tri-columnar Hall'
from the Porch. This was desirable not only for the sake of privacy, but
in order the better to mask the fact that the axial disposition of this Hall
differs from that of the system of approach from the South, owing to its
widening out on its Eastern border.
The antechamber, thus delimited with its columnar opening on the side
of the Upper Propylaeum Porch, giving access on its opposite border to the
main ceremonial hall, and connected by the cross passage-way with the open
corridor leading to the other upper halls, must have been a much frequented
lobby and the true foyer for the whole West Section of the Palace. Its walls
may well have exhibited a processional scheme of decoration similar to that
of the lower hall of the Propylaeum and of the entrance Corridor beyond.
The view, Fig. 449, looking South from near the West column-base of
the central, three-columned Hall, gives a good view of this lobby in its
relation to the surrounding structures. Parts of the upper floor are here
shown as restored in ferro-concrete, with the door-jambs of the Upper Porch
beyond, and to the right the limestone jambs of two Magazines belonging to
the open ' Upper Long Corridor', while a section of the Lower Long Corri-
dor is seen below. Beyond rises the restored bay of the lower Propylaeum
Hall, and on the opposite slope, directly facing, appears the Stepped Pavilion
and adjoining bath chamber of the ' Caravanserai'. On the horizon is the
peak of Juktas.