The first lay just within the north-east facade, and ran parallel to it.

It was entered by three doorways, the central one ornamented externally.
with two colossal bulls of the largest size, one on either side within the entrance, and with two pairs of smaller bulls, back to back, on the projecting pylons; the side ones guarded by winged genii, human or hawk-headed.

The length of the chamber was 116 feet 6 inches, and its breadth 33 feet.

Its sculptures represented the monarch receiving prisoners, and either personally or by deputy punishing them: [PLATE XLV., Fig.

3.] We may call it, for distinction's sake, "the Hall of Punishment." The second hall (V.in the plan) ran parallel with the first, but did not extend along its whole length.