"... In some of the Syrian and Assyrian hilanis, daises were found at one end of the throne room, together with curious parallel grooved tracks set at right angles to the dais. The latter seem to have been used to move a brazier nearer to or further from the enthroned king; a square, iron container on wheels was found still on its tracks at Tell Halaf. At Tell Ta’yinat and some of the Assyrian palaces, the cast-bronze feet of (mostly wooden) furniture have been found. These feet often copy a bull’s hoof or a lion’s paw or a griffin’s claw (like Queen Anne furniture to which they may be distantly ancestral]. A not too dissimilar setting must have provided the background to many of the judgments of Solomon. The ornamentation of the portico and audience halls was impressive but prob­ably not elaborate. With the bit hilani, columns or pillars in number are intro­duced into Palestine. These are probably topped with the great proto-lonic or proto­Aeolic capitals found on many excava­tions. On the hilani portico the column would have been free-standing with the capitals carved on both faces; elsewhere, attached pilasters occur, in which case the capitals were carved on one face only ..."