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2.4 The Tall Arched Doorways
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The eastern doorway (pl. 32, 1) was blocked more deliberately and probably much earlier by a platform-
like structure which occupies almost its entire thickness to a height of 1.25 m above the top of the second
step. The jambs are finely finished with a toothed chisel from this level to the top, and the impost capital is
more elaborately carved than its counterpart in the west, but the surface below the level of this feature was left
rough. The jambs and the voussoirs also lack the cuttings for hardware to secure a gate and lunette grill, so the
platform was probably an early addition to a doorway which was never used for through traffic. A wall of un-
shaped stones and brick fragments with a plastered surface on the plane of the doorway’s outer face produced
a deep niche which may have held a statue.
(L. Bier)
45
The eastern doorway (pl. 32, 1) was blocked more deliberately and probably much earlier by a platform-
like structure which occupies almost its entire thickness to a height of 1.25 m above the top of the second
step. The jambs are finely finished with a toothed chisel from this level to the top, and the impost capital is
more elaborately carved than its counterpart in the west, but the surface below the level of this feature was left
rough. The jambs and the voussoirs also lack the cuttings for hardware to secure a gate and lunette grill, so the
platform was probably an early addition to a doorway which was never used for through traffic. A wall of un-
shaped stones and brick fragments with a plastered surface on the plane of the doorway’s outer face produced
a deep niche which may have held a statue.
(L. Bier)
