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Nunnery North


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Interior and Columns of Building at Left (West) of Grand Staircase (Temple of Venus)

Building at left of grand staircase, known as "The Temple of Venus", front room: looking west showing all 4 square piers. Main shafts are not carved on sides or back.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Same front room, looking opposite direction mostly reconstructed from collapsed stones.
Jan. 2003(24mm lens)
Detail of west end seen in photo at far left, showing slender wooden rods, crossbeams, fitted into circular depressions in vault.
Jan. 2001
3 view of west end of same room; note depressions for holding ends of slender wooden rods, crossbeams.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Looking west down center of room, showing characteristic symmetrical vault.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Looking west showing two of three doorways to back rooms.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Square, thick monolithic pillars with capitals and bases and with central recess on fronts of pillars and bases; this one 2nd from left, well preserved.
Jan. 2001
3rd pillar from left, with badly damaged capital.
Nov. 1999
4th pillar from left, with badly damaged capital.
Jan. 2001
 

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