⁵ Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries^[a] took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.

⁷ The passageway^[a] 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.^(A)