1. Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard.
2. This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 871/2 feet wide.
3. One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.
4. Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 171/2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north.
5. Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.
6. Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.
7. There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 871/2 feet long.
8. This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 871/2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet.