PICTURES
OF
THE
PALACE.
37
The
proposed
grouping
of
these
apartments
on
the
basis
afforded
by
the
ground-plan
of
the
ruins
1
will
be
made
clear
by
the
diagram
(PI.
xxxiv.).2
The
following
notes
on
this
restoration
of
the
palace
may
serve
to
indicate
the
difficulty
or
the
ease
with
which
each
of
the
above
features
of
the
pictured
palace
fits
into
the
building
thus
restored.
The
most
striking
incongruity
is
met
with
in
the
wings
thrown
out
on
each
side
of
the
courtyard,
and
forming
a
long
corridor
supported
on
handsome
columns,3
with
a
dwarf
wall
(?)
on
the
one
hand
and
a
series
of
tiny
chambers
on
the
other.4
They
might
well
be
often
omitted
by
the
artist
as
outside
the
scope
of
his
picture,
but
we
should
certainly
expect
to
see
this
striking
feature
indicated
in
pictures
of
the
courtyard
in
the
Northern
Group.
I
think,
however,
we
find
it
depicted
in
V.,
v.
;
the
artist
has
shown
the
east
instead
of
the
west
wing
for
pictorial
reasons,
but
the
servant
hurrying
from
the
store-rooms
into
the
interior
of
the
palace
is
quite
in
keeping.
1.
One
would
be
tempted
to
take
the
pictures
seriously
and
place
the
loggia
in
an
upper
story
over
the
vestibule,
were
it
not
for
practical
considerations
(cf.
I.,
xviii.).
The
corridor
and
banqueting-hall
received
light
from
above
the
low
walls
of
the
loggia
in
the
centre
of
the
facade
(III.,
xxxiv.).
2.
For
the
end
doors
of
the
vestibule
see
II.,
xiv.
The
number
and
grouping
of
the
columns
must
remain
uncertain.
3.
The
three
entrance
doors
to
this
hall
from
the
vestibule
are
not
indicated
by
the
ruins,
and,
of
course,
may
be
forbidden
by
them.
If
the
side
doors
could
mean
doors
at
the
ends
of
the
hall
this
would
be
more
practical
(cf.
III.,
xiii.;
VI.,
iv.),
and
though
it
is
subject
to
the
same
censure,
I
adopt
it
provisionally.
The
painted
pavement
is
not
sug¬
1
Petrie,
ib.
xxxvi.
2
In
this
restored
plan,
which
can
at
the
best
give
only
a
passable
idea
of
the
original
building,
I
have
completed
the
west
side
with
approximate
symmetry,
inserted
rooms
in
the
vacant
space
in
the
rear,
enclosed
the
court,
added
the
front
and
vestibule,
and
pierced
a
few
doorways
(marked
with
notes
of
interrogation).
The
rooms
are
numbered
in
accordance
with
the
above
list.
3
Petrie,
ib.,
PL
vii.
4
They
seem
to
me
to
have
served
as
store-rooms
rather
than
cubicles,
and
the
paintings
on
their
walls
confirm
this.
Petrie,
ib.,
p.
15
;
cf.
I.,
xxxi.
gested
in
any
of
the
pictures.
The
walls,
when
found,
were
decorated
with
a
dado
of
domestic
scenes
appro¬
priate
to
the
room.
4.
That
the
men's
quarters
should
be
reached
directly
from
the
hall
and
separately,
as
here,
seems
most
in
con¬
sonance
with
the
pictures.
The
arrangement
of
the
rooms
in
this
section
might
of
course
be
much
altered;
I
have
followed
a
symmetrical
plan
as
far
as
possible.
8.
The
space
between
the
men's
and
women's
quarters,
decorated
with
real
or
painted
plants
set
round
a
tank
or
free
centre,
corresponds
perfectly
to
the
court
in
the
ruins,
the
border
of
which
was
painted
with
plants.
As
the
walls
also
were
painted
with
out-door
scenes
(resembling
appar¬
ently
those
of
the
dado
in
III.,
viii.),
it
is
probable
that
this
was
a
peristyle
court
on
wooden
columns,
perhaps
with
trees
in
boxes
in
the
centre
(Pis.
xvii.,
xix.,
xxviii.).
If
I
remember
rightly,
there
is
a
tiny
water-tank
still
existing
in
this
court.
9.
This
hall
had
also
a
painted
pavement,
of
which
the
pictures
give
no
hint.
The
columns
were
overlaid
with
modelled
glazed
tiles.
10.
The
royal
saloon
and
bedroom
are
always
in
close
proximity
in
the
pictures.
In
PI.
iv.
the
bedroom
and
painted
(?)
corridor
of
PL
xvii.
seem
to
have
been
combined
for
lack
of
room.
Yet
we
know
that
the
room
opening
out
of
this
hall
had
actually
a
painted
border.
The
difficulty
is
that
the
room
is
only
five
feet
broad
at
most.
Either,
then,
it
is
a
corridor
leading
to
the
bedroom,
or
the
royal
bedroom
was
upon
the
roof,
as
the
ventilator
shown
in
several
pictures
may
indicate.
11.
12.
The
other
offices
I
have
placed
at
the
back
of
the
painted
court,
where
they
are
quite
in
place.
They
might
lie
in
an
upper
story
above
the
harem,
for
we
know
that
the
houses
of
El
Amarna
had
stairways,
and
there
seems
a
place
for
such
a
construction
outside
the
harem
door.
But
the
existence
of
such
an
upper
suite
must
remain
quite
hypothetical.
13,
14.
These
two
rooms
confirm
the
tomb
pictures
some¬
what
strikingly,
if
we
assign
them
to
the
women.6
But
the
small
size
of
the
rooms
(10
x
12
feet)
is
surprising.
It
is
to
be
hoped
that
the
new
excavations
which
have
been
begun
with
such
promise
by
Professor
Borchardt
will
throw
additional
light
on
this
interesting
subject.
5
Or
they
might
be
the
lower
stories
of
the
harem
and
store-rooms
respectively.
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