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Between the two doors which pierced the back wall was a squared recess, and similar recesses ornamented the same wall on either side of the doors.
The side walls were each pierced originally by a single doorway, between which and the front wall was a squared recess, while beyond, between the doorways and the back wall, were two recesses of the same character.
Curiously enough, these side doorways and recesses fronted the pillars, not the intercolumniations. [Illustration: PLATE XLVI.] No sculpture, so far as appears, adorned this apartment, excepting in the doorways, which however had in every case this kind of ornamentation.
The doorways in the back wall exhibited on their jambs figures of the king followed by two attendants, one holding a cloth, and the other a fly-chaser.
[PLATE XLV., Fig.
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