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platform on the eastern side of the Annex.
A simpler solution can be suggested as
well: a westward path on top of the
semicircular wall leading to the roof of the
passage (3) and reaching the same room
from the west through an alleged entrance
in the west wall. Furthermore, by obtrud-
ing the connecting doorway, the staircase
in room 4 quite obviously inconvenienced
the passage between rooms 4 and 5
fcf. Fig. 41
The introduction of the stairway in room
4 also destroyed part of the original painted
decoration. At least two compositions at
the east end of the room were screened off
by the upper landing. Some were saved,
like a large section of a huge figure sup-
posed to be St. Epiphanios and a painting
showing St. Jeremy the Prophet, originally
on the north wall at the entrance to room 5
(now recomposed from loose fragments of


Fig. 4- Staircase filling room 4 in the SW Annex,
seen from inside room 3 (Photo W. Chmiel)


Fig. 3- Interior of passage in the SW Annex
looking north (Photo W. Chmiel)



Fig. 3. Staircase leading up from corridor 7 to the
SW Building (Photo W. Chmiel)

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