Southern “Entrance”

View looking west at the southern “entrance” to the Tobiad palace Qasr al–Abd. The two stone columns mark the “entrance,” but actually it is a false “entrance” with no doors. Evidently it was designed to give balance to the real north entrance of the building—although behind the columns there are three windows that allow light into the building from the south. This southern wall is 62 ft. [19 m.] long.