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… had only the wall itself a standing purpose and in that case should be understood as a kind of saving of labour and material. More probable, however, since their mutual distance is exactly the same all round the wall, is that they formed necessary substructures for an arcade decoration on the outer façade of the wall and that the gypsum pillars in that case took up the vault thrust and indicate the space between each arcade. The conditions at the diazoma entrances do not stand in the way of such an assumption. – Between these gypsum pillars the wall has a much weaker character; indeed it is in itself so weak that it could scarcely have withstood bear resist a greater pressure from above, if this had not been eased by vaults and transferred to certain points of support in the gypsum pillars. Between these the wall is laid of lightly dressed, somewhat more than head-sized stones which in turn in a highly characteristic manner are wedged together with … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain