They are 143 feet long, by thirty broad, and thus cover each an area of 4260 feet.

The most astonishing feature in the whole building is the height of the pillars.

These, according to the measurements of M.Flandin, had a uniform altitude throughout the building of sixty-four feet.

Even in their ruin, they tower over every other erection upon the platform, retaining often, in spite of the effects of time, an elevation of sixty feet.
The capitals of the pillars were of three kinds.

Those of the side colonnades were comparatively simple: they consisted, in each case, of a single member, formed, in the eastern colonnade, of two half-griffins, with their heads looking in opposite directions [PLATE XLVII, Fig.