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Figure 48. Temple III, Boghazkcuy

Beyond the colonnade lies another section of the shrine; the lower parts of its walls
were built of granite, while those of the first were of limestone, and it is not centred on
the axis of the front part. At the back of its largest room stands a stone base for the statue
of a divinity. The only means of access leads from the colonnade through two ante­
rooms.
Some of the magazines surrounding the actual shrine contained large storage jars,
shown in the plan. At two points there are staircases, while a tliird, at the sharp angle
where the magazines jut out to the left, leads from the outside to a secondary entrance.
Yet another entrance is seen in the middle of the south-west wall.
Without the ring of magazines the temple would lack the seclusion which we expect
in a Near Eastern sanctuary. In Egypt and Mesopotamia small barred windows were
placed high up in outside walls and the rooms received much of their light from the

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