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 public library buildings of the period whether palace, temple or gymnasial.

This type includes: colonnade, reading room, storage rooms and lecture room. In detail:

(1) A colonnade in which scholars could "walk and teach" as Plato in the Academy, Aristotle in the Museum, Jesus Christ in the Temple at Jerusalem, and St. Paul with Stoics and Epicureans in the porticos of the Agora at Athens.

(2) Room with cases, with names and statues or paintings of authors or symbolic pictures of literary works and with a statue of the god of learning, generally Minerva, or possibly Apollo or Hermes.

(3) Adjoining storage rooms.

(4) An assembly and lecture room or conference hall which might be sometimes the same as the Reading room and where the public council might sometimes sit.

The library as shown by the cross section cut was situated in the upper cloister,