24 PALEXQUE. 



Outside the north end of the east wall of this building there is a small chamber with 

 a doorway facing west, and in the interior of this chamber the stucco on the wall 

 surface is moulded in a diamond pattern. The space between this chamber and 

 house F is formed into a covered passage. 



Against the north-west corner of House F stands a stone table resting on four legs. 

 On the west side of the house a few steps lead down to the level of the floor of the 

 Middle Court. 



Houses G & H. (Plates XLV. and XLVI.) 



These two buildings of equal size, with corridors rnnning nearly east and west, 

 stand on a raised foundation. The main features of the plan of each house are the 

 same as in those houses already described ; but the walls are somewhat lower than is 

 usual, and the pitch of the roof is at an angle too wide to ensure stability, and in 

 consequence the outer slopes of the roof have fallen in. 



The south front of each building has four piers and three doorways, and there are 

 two doorways in the north wall of each building. 



The space between the ends of the two buildings is roofed over and divided by a 

 wall into two passages running at right angles to the corridors of the houses themselves. 



The roof above the main wall of each house is pierced by passages somwhat similar 

 to those in House F. There are remains of several secondary transverse walls across 

 the corridors. 



At the south end of the Middle Court a small chamber or adoritorio, without any 

 ornament, has been built up against the face of the raised foundation which supports 

 House G. And a few feet further to the west, almost opposite to the southern door of 

 House E, there is a small niche in the face of the foundation mound which may mark 

 the entrance to a sepulchral chamber. 



At the east end of the northern corridor of House H is a stone table. A transverse 

 partition wall forms the west end of this corridor into a separate chamber, which 

 has an opening in the floor, from which a flight of steps descends to a passage 

 communicating with the Enclosed Corridors. It appears as though this opening in 

 the floor had, at some former time, been purposely blocked up. 



The lintels of the small doorways of Houses G and H are of stone, the others were 

 of wood. All the wall-holes are T-shaped. The stucco covering of the masonry is of 

 a grey colour, and it has not a polished surface. 



Between the north face of the foundation of House H and the foundation of the 

 ruined House I there is a narrow passage which has been roofed over and is divided 



