The larger bulls stood at right angles to these figures, withdrawn within the portal, and facing the spectator.

The space between the bulls, which is nearly twenty feet, was (it is probable) arched over.

Perhaps the archway led into a chamber beyond which was a second archway and an inner portal, as marked in Mr.Fergusson's plan: but this is at present uncertain.
Besides the great portal, the only buildings as yet discovered on this lower platform, are a suite of not very extensive apartments.

They are remarkable for their ornamentation.

The walls are neither lined with slabs, nor yet (as is sometimes the case) painted, but the plaster of which they are composed is formed into sets of half pillars or reeding, separated from one another by pilasters with square sunk panels.