4).

More frequently, the court was surrounded on three sides by chambers (fig.

5); and yet oftener the house fronted close upon the street.

In the latter case the facade consisted of a high wall, whitewashed or painted, and surmounted by a cornice.

Even in better houses the only ornamentation of their outer walls consisted in angular grooving, the grooves being surmounted by representations of two lotus flowers, each pair with the upper parts of the stalks in contact (see figs.