⁸ The entrance for the lower^[a] story was on the south side of the house: one went up by winding stairs to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.

⁶ The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets^[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.^{(A) 7} The passageway^[b] of the side chambers widened from story to story, for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one.^(B)