2.] The bases for the pillars alone remain; and it is thus uncertain whether their material was stone or wood.

They were probably light and slender, not greatly interrupting the view.

The hall was surrounded on all sides by walls from four to five feet in thickness, in which were doors, windows, and recesses, symmetrically arranged.

The entrance from the portico was by a door in the exact centre of the front wall, on either side of which were two windows, looking into the portico.

The opposite, or back, wall was pierced by two doors, which faced the intercolumniations of the side rows of pillars, as the front door faced the intercolumniation of the central rows.