He seems to suppose that these openings were wholly unprotected, in which case they would have admitted, in a very inconvenient way, both the sun and the rain.

May we not presume that, if such openings existed, they were guarded by louvres such as have been regarded as probably lighting the Assyrian halls, and of which a representation has already been given?
The portico of the Hall of a Hundred Columns was flanked on either side by a colossal bull, standing at the inner angle of the antes, and thus in some degree narrowing the entrance.

Its columns were fluted, and had in every case the complex capital, which occurs also in the great propylaea and in the Hall of Xerxes.

It was built of the same sort of massive blocks as the south-eastern edifice, or Ancient Palace--blocks often ten feet square by seven feet thick, and may be ascribed probably to the same age as that structure.

Like that edifice, it is situated somewhat low; it has no staircase, and no inscription.