6. Then he went to the gateway that faced east. He went up the steps, and at the top he measured the entrance; it was three metres deep.
7. Beyond it there was a passage, which had three guardrooms on each side. Each of the rooms was square, three metres on each side, and the walls between them were 2.5 metres thick. Beyond the guardrooms there was a passage three metres long that led to an entrance room which faced the Temple.
8-9. He measured this room, and found it was four metres deep. It formed that end of the gateway which was nearest the Temple, and at its far end the walls were one metre thick.
10. (These guardrooms on each side of the passage were all the same size, and the walls between them were all of the same thickness.)
11. Next, the man measured the width of the passage in the gateway. It was 6.5 metres altogether, and the space between the open gates was five metres.
12. In front of each of the guardrooms there was a low wall fifty centimetres high and fifty centimetres thick. (The rooms were three metres square.)
13. Then he measured the distance from the back wall of one room to the back wall of the room across the passage from it, and it was 12.5 metres.
14. The room at the far end led out to a courtyard. He measured that room and found it was ten metres wide.
15. The total length of the gateway from the outside wall of the gate to the far side of the last room was 25 metres.
16. There were small openings in the outside walls of all the rooms and also in the inner walls between the rooms. There were palm trees carved on the inner walls that faced the passage.
17. The man took me through the gateway into the courtyard. There were thirty rooms built against the outer wall, and in front of them there was an area paved with stones,
18. which extended round the courtyard. This outer courtyard was at a lower level than the inner courtyard.
19. There was a gateway at a higher level that led to the inner courtyard. The man measured the distance between the two gateways, and it was fifty metres.