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[6] Each of the sides contains a gate with bronze doors, beside each of which stand bronze poles twenty cubits high1; these were intended to catch the eye of the beholder, but the gates were for security.

1 The purpose of these is unknown, but they suggest the flagstaffs which stood by the pylons of the Egyptian temples.

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