⁷ The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.^[a](A)

¹⁶ the thresholds, the beveled windows,^(A) and the balconies all around with their three levels opposite the threshold—were overlaid with wood on all sides.^(B) They were paneled from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

¹⁷ reaching to the top of the entrance, and as far as the inner temple and on the outside. On every wall all around, on the inside and outside, was a pattern