[Footnote 72: Fig. 6, J.] [Footnote 73: Marked _b_ and _c_ on the plan.] [Footnote 74: See further, Chap. V.] [Footnote 75: Fig. 6, B.] [Footnote 76: Such jars, or alabastra, were highly esteemed; and the royal factory need not surprise us, since the king not only employed them for his own use, but sent the larger sort away as presents. In the Persian period we know that Xerxes despatched some as royal gifts, inscribed with his own name and titles, as far afield as Egypt and the western coast of Asia Minor.] [Footnote 77: See above, p. 28, Fig. 5.] [Footnote 78: See Fig. 6, F; this portion of the ground-plan of the palace is given on a larger scale in Fig. 9.] [Footnote 79: Fig. 9, _b, c_ and _d_.] [Footnote 80: Fig. 9, _f_ and _g._ The courts (numbered on the plan 1-3) are square like the small courts or light-wells in the rest of the palace, and like them were evidently left open in order to give light and air to the chambers round them. In the Persian period one of them (No 1) was roofed over wholly or in part, as the bases for two pillars, formed of palm-trunks, are still in place, which were clearly intended to support roof-beams. These are indicated by solid circles on the plan.] [Footnote 81: See above, p. 30, Fig. 6, _d._] [Footnote 82: See p. 42, Fig. 9, _e._] [Footnote 83: Fig. 9, 1. This is the court roofed in during the Persian period (see p. 44, n. 1), evidently to secure the king a second covered passage-way when passing from the Throne Room or from some of its adjoining chambers to the private palace.] [Footnote 84: See below, p. 62 f.] [Footnote 85: Fig. 11, I.] [Footnote 86: B. in Fig. 6 and 11.] [Footnote 87: Marked _h_ on the plans.] [Footnote 88: Fig. 11, _m_ and _n_.] [Footnote 89: In Fig. 11 the reference letter _l._, to indicate the building, is marked along the gangway.] [Footnote 90: It is marked on the plan, and lies between the entrance _m_ and the south-east corner of the building.] [Footnote 91: The _κρεμαστὸς παράδεισος_ of Berossus, the _κρεμαστὸς κῆπος_ of Ctesias and Strabo, the _pensiles horti_ of Curtius Rufus; their descriptions are quoted at length by Koldewey, "Babylon," pp. 95 ff., Engl, ed., pp. 90 ff.] [Footnote 92: Koldewey's explanation, that the total circuit of the building has been confused with the length of a single side, need not be invoked, in view of the natural tendency of ancient writers to exaggeration in such matters, especially when reproducing measurements at second or third hand.] [Footnote 93: This objection seems to me to outweigh any correspondence in details between the architectural structure of the Vaulted Building and the texts of Curtius Rufus or Diodorus.] [Footnote 94: For the probable reason for this practice in temple-construction, see below, p. 63.] [Footnote 95: See above, pp. 31 ff.]