⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer^[a] court; for this reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.^(A)

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)

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.