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From the pronaos (p) the naos (n) was entered by a door (w), 4 mètres broad. As above mentioned, the naos is about 20 m. long by 10.15 m. broad (see No. 25). The lateral faces of the door-opening (w) were cased with wooden posts, 0.10 m. broad, which stood on smaller foundation-stones than those of the antae of the end faces of the lateral walls. Precisely in the middle of the naos is a circular elevation (z), about 4 mètres in diameter, rising 0.07 m. above the floor. It consists, like the floor, of beaten clay, and seems to have served as the substruction to an altar or as a base for the idol; but we cannot say this with certainty, the greater part of the circle having been cut away by the great north trench. At the north-east extremity of the lateral wall of this naos is a semicircular foundation (u), the use of which we cannot explain, because its upper part is missing. Like all edifices in the prehistoric cities of Troy, this temple had a horizontal roofing, which was made of large wooden beams, smaller rafters, and clay. This is evident from the entire absence of any tiles, as well as from the existence in the interior of the edifice of a layer of clay 0.30 m. thick, mixed with calcined rafters and some large well-preserved pieces of wood. All this must necessarily have belonged to the horizontal terrace which once covered the edifice and which, in the great catastrophe, fell into the interior. This kind of roofing is still in general use in the Troad. Most houses both of the Turkish and the Greek villages have similar horizontal roofs, which are made of strong wooden beams, smaller cross-rafters, rushes, and a thick layer of clay.
As above mentioned, the temple B lies parallel to the temple A on its north-east side, and is only separated from it by a passage 0.50 m. wide (see the woodcut No. 26). Its walls were likewise built of crude bricks, which were artificially baked when the walls were quite ready, in the manner above described. The walls are 1.25 m. thick; they rest on foundations of small unwrought stones, only 0.50 m.