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Great Palace


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Mid-level of West (left) Side

Platform or terrace in front of mid-level facade of left side; 2 narrow doorways and 4 porticos, each subdivided into 3 openings by a pair of columns.
Jan. 2001
Looking east along same facade, showing rounded corner stones at far left and straight base.
Jan. 2001
At far right - unusual monlithic jamb stone.
Jan. 2001
Two-drum column with square capital; three stone jamb at right with square counter-capital.
Jan. 2003)
Same column; division between two drums partly covered with plaster, indicating column originally appeared monolithic.
Jan. 2003
Same column; showing surviving thin coat of plaster, with red clay or paint, unusual to have survived on an exposed exterior.
Jan. 2003
Two-columned doorway just to left of Grand Staircase: round columns with square capitals; medial and base moldings, both with plain colonnettes, but different heights.
Jan. 2002
Two-drum column in doorway in photo at left, each drum with its own entasis; showing doorway to interior back room.
Jan. 2002
Two-drum? column in doorway in photo at far left, slight entasis.
Jan. 2002
 

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