built and the .worse-built portions of the outer wall do
not unite near the great doorway, and the foundation
of the well-built walls turns outward, as is shown in the
plan. The worse-built walls of all the temples do
not show any of the peculiarities of design so characteristic
of the better walls, except in two instances,
oT .. . . . Ts . . . i I_10_ _______ 2 0I ------------31-° ------------4p1
A b shows present top of tower, c d shows outline of walls as seen in
illustration, Chap. VI.
T H E TW O TOW E R S
where they seem to be rough reconstructions of older
walls. We may, therefore, assume that these poorer
walls are not of the original period, and that they
were built by a people who either did not practise
solar worship or who did not do so under the
original forms. We will, therefore, disregard the
poor walls in studying the plans of the temples. It
is much to be regretted that we could recover no’
plan of the western side of the original outer wall, as
it might have made clear to us the meaning of many
of the features of the eastern wall.
The most important feature in the interior of
the temple is, of course, the great tower, which is
a marvel of workmanship in rough material, and in
the truth of its lines almost as wonderful as the
column of a Greek temple. We could at first discover
no reason for its being built in its peculiar
position. It has not been placed with any reference
to the points of the compass nor to the bearing of
the sun at the equinoxes, and its position is only
indirectly connected with the position of the sun at
the solstices. But it is in the middle of the space