BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
age room for books, in view of the obvious inadequacy of the space for books in the cases of the reading room itself, which presumably included only a selection of the books in common use, as in the modern library reading room. As a matter of fact, however, there was plenty of such space, so far as space was concerned, in the wall passages of the Ephesus library as has been said. Some of the side rooms at Timgad too were certainly not used for storage as one of them has a special entrance on side street and suggests an administration room. The two large rooms at the side of the main reading room also have a single niche for bookcase at the end and suggest rather study rooms or lecture rooms than storage rooms. The building is made largely of brick formerly covered with marble.
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