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 by a broad road leading from the city wall. It does not have a hall and antechamber, but contains a number of adjacent rooms, as seen by the ground plan in fig. 24. The destruction of the upper wall leaves no indication as to how these different apartments were connected.

The stately retaining wall (fig. 25) rises 6 m. high,



with four advancing angles similar to those of the citadel wall. The distance between these projections is about 5.50 m., which is about one-half the distance between the projections of the city wall. The masonry resembles that of the South Wall of the citadel. Huge well-wrought rectangular stones are placed at the corners. The interstices are filled with rubble. The upper portion of the structure has suffered considerably from exposure to the weather. So great has been the injury from this cause that the sharp corners are worn