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Then he led me into the outer courtyard - the route went north - and brought me to the [block of] rooms opposite the separated yard and opposite the building to the north.
2
The length of the front was 175 feet on the north side, where the door was; the width was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.
3
It was located between the inner courtyard, which was thirty-five feet wide, and the flooring of the outer courtyard. It had galleries, one above the other, on three floors.
4
In front of the [block of] rooms was a walkway seventeen-and-a-half feet wide and a path twenty-one inches [wide]; their doors faced north.
5
The upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took up some of their space, more than from the [rooms on the] lower and middle [floors] of the building.
6
For the rooms were on three floors, and they didn't have columns like those in the courtyards; therefore space was taken away from the [rooms on the] lower and middle [floors], in comparison with the ground.
7
The length of the wall outside, next to the rooms, toward the outer courtyard in front of the rooms, was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.
8
For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet, whereas [the length of] the side facing the sanctuary was 175 feet.
9
Under these rooms was the entrance to the east side, leading in from the outer courtyard.
10
In the width of the courtyard wall on the east, facing the separated yard and facing the building, there were rooms,
11
with a passageway in front of them, similar to the rooms on the north. They were the same length and width and had similarly made exits and entrances.