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Rum 14.Room 14 or the large court forms the palace's centre and most important part. It consists of a largely exceptionally well-preserved cement-floor 16,60 m X 17,50 m square, on all sides surrounded by three rooms with three doorways. In the southwest a stairway (partly well-preserved) leads up to a higher level. The stairway takes up the full breadth of the court. In the cement floor are set stone edgings 0,70 m broad and at the corner points between these have peculiar columns risen, supporting a roof which opened toward the central square. In the middle of the court there is a 22 m. deep well or cistern, which has the form of two bottle-shapes placed on top of each other. The rooms surrounding the court are in the Southwest (above the large stairway) 16; 17 and 18. in the Northwest 41; 42; 43 and possibly one more in the Northeast ?; 19; 13 in the Southeast 10; 11; 1; 15
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain