. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Place suggests that the rooms were all vaulted on theinside, and the spandrels filled in with earth afterwards toform perfectly flat roofs, and he gives a restoration of thebuilding on such an arrangement; but if he is correct,it is impossible to see how any light at all can have pene-trated into the interior of many of the apartments, andas these apartments are decorated with a profusion ofpaintings it is very difficult to believe that artificial lightalouQ wa^ used in them. M. Place thinks, however, that ASSYniA>f. 51 ill some cylindri
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Place suggests that the rooms were all vaulted on theinside, and the spandrels filled in with earth afterwards toform perfectly flat roofs, and he gives a restoration of thebuilding on such an arrangement; but if he is correct,it is impossible to see how any light at all can have pene-trated into the interior of many of the apartments, andas these apartments are decorated with a profusion ofpaintings it is very difficult to believe that artificial lightalouQ wa^ used in them. M. Place thinks, however, that ASSYniA>f. 51 ill some cylindrical tcrra-cotta vessels wliicli ho found liehas hit upon a species of skylight which passed completelythrough the vault over the rooms, and thus admitted tholight from above. This, however, can hardly be considereilas settled yet. Mr. Fergusson, on the other hand, suggeststhat the thick main walls weve carried to a height of about18 or 19 ft., and that above this were tAvo rows of dwarfcolumns, one on the inner and the other on the outer ed0. ilo. 33.—Pavemesi from of the Willi, these columns supporting a flat terrace roof, andthe walls thus forming galleries all round the to cover the space occupieil by the apartments them-selves it is necessary to assume the existence of rows ofcolumns, the capitals of Avhich were at the same level asthose of the dwarf columns on the walls. Where oneapartment is surrounded on all sides by , the roofover it may have been carried up to a higher level, forming i: 2 52 AXCIEXT ARCHITECTURE. a sort of clerest-;ry. This tlieoiy no doubt accounts formany things which are very hard to explain otherwise,and derives very strong support from the analogy of Per-sepolis, where slender stone columns exist. Such columnsof cedar Avood Avould add enormously to the magnificenceand grandeur of the building; and if, as seems likely, mostof these Assyrian palaces were destroyed by fire, theabsence of the remains of columns off
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