in a square, three hundred and fifty-seven cubits on each side. And a peristyle around the block, the portico of the street: three rods, twenty-one cubits. 2 Also he showed me the measurements of all the blocks. Between one block and another there is the street, six rods wide, forty-two cubits. 3 And the main streets which run from East to West: the width of the street, of two of them is ten rods, seventy cubits; and the third, 4 the one which passes to the left of the temple he measured: eighteen rods wide, one hundred and twenty-six cubits. And the width of the streets which run from South[1] 5 to North: two of them are nine rods and four cubits each one, sixty-seven cubits; the one in the middle, which is in the centre of the city, 6 he measured its width: thirteen rods and a cubit, ninety-two cubits. All the streets and the city are paved with white stone 7 ... alabaster and onyx. 8 And he showed me the measurements of the eighty posterns: the width of the posterns is two rods, fourteen cubits ... 9 ... Each door had two stone jambs; the width of the jambs is one rod, seven cubits. 10 He showed me the dimensions of the twelve ... The width of their doors is three rods, twenty-one cubits... Each 11 door has two jambs; the width of the jambs: one and a half rods, ten and a half cubits ... 12 On the side of each door were two towers, one on the right and the other on the left. Their height and their width are the same size: five rods by five, 13 thirty-three cubits. The staircase which skirts the door, to the right of the towers, goes up to the height of the towers and is five cubits wide. The towers 14 and the staircases are five rods by five, and five cubits, forty cubits on each side of the door. 15 And he showed me the dimen- sions of the porches of the blocks; their width is two rods, fourteen cubits; and the width of the ... their dimensions are ... cubits. 16 ... And he measured the width of each vestibule: two rods, fourteen cubits; ... 17 He measured each vestibule and its rooms. And he measured inside the vestibule: its length is thirteen cubits and its width ten cubits. 18 And he led me inside the vestibule, and see there was another vestibule and a door to the side of the inner wall; on the right side, with the dimensions of 19 the outer door: four cubits in width, seven cubits high, with two rooms. In front of this door, the entrance vestibule, of one rod wide
seven cubits. The length of the entrance: two rods, fourteen cubits, and the height: two rods, fourteen cubits. And the door opposite to the (other) door, the one which opens to the block, has the dimensions of the outer door. To the left of this entry he showed me a staircase which goes round and up: its length and its width are the same size: two rods by two, fourteen cubits. The doors opposite to the (other) doors are the same sizes. And the pillar within the space, upon which the staircase goes round and up, its width and its length are six by six cubits in a square. And the staircase which goes up at its side is four cubits in width, and goes round and up to a height of two rods, upwards. And he brought me to the interior of the block and showed me the houses there, fifteen from one door to another; eight from one side up to the corner, and seven from the corner up to the other door. Length of the houses: three rods; twenty-one cubits; and their width: two rods, fourteen cubits. And all the rooms the same. Their height is two rods, fourteen cubits. Their door is in the middle; it is two rods, fourteen cubits wide. And he measured the width of the middle of the houses and the interior of ... four cubits; length and height, one rod, seven cubits ... The site is nineteen cubits long and twelve cubits wide. The house has twenty-two beds, and there are eleven lattice windows above the beds. At their side is the outer gutter. And he measured ... the window: height, two cubits; width, ... cubits, and its thickness is the width of the wall. Height of its inner part: ... cubits and of the other ... cubits. And he measured the edges of the platforms: nineteen cubits long and twelve cubits wide... and their height ... they open ... two rods, fourteen cubits; their width is three cubits and they are ten (cubits) long ... one and a half cubits, and their height within
... windows ... all the houses which are in the inside ... each door, and their vestibules are ... wide ... the columns, twelve cubits ... from one column to another ...