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314 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud.-ea. in the order indicated ; albeit there is some uncertainty as to whether he started in his enumeration from the north or from the south. The chances are for the latter ; for the movement and bustle consequent on the palace and its requirements were concentrated here. The various trades of the city were kept employed by the large establishment of Solomon : and their agents were constantly seen plying to and fro on the causeway that led from this quarter to the palace. Moreover, all the superior as well as sub-officers 'iG. 210. — Passage in front of Throne Room. of the household had their houses in town ; but repaired every morning to the palace for the duties of their office and went home in the evening. Then, too, there were the days when the king sat in judgment ; and the days when his subjects were permitted to make their obeisance, bringing rich gifts as a token of fealty (2 Sam. xi.). All the gates had proper names, to distinguish them one from the other : such as the " upper " or " temple " gate, opening out of the harem; the "royal" gate; the "horses'" gate ; this being doubtless south of the palace, and connected by a causeway with the bridge, long disappeared, but which was