it is worth a good deal to my belief
provided your conclusion applies only to the inner propylaea
for as you & the pix also indicate
the outer propylaea
which are the ones that presumably matter to itva
arise from a much lower ground level
& would thus appear to need steps
both to communicate with the gallery floors
& also to form the outer edges of the propylaea at ground level &
thus conduct the border between the bases of the propylaea
columns
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> For whatever it's worth, you can see from all of the following
photos that there
> are no steps in the propylaea:
>
> http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd0800/bernini-colonnade-3
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2qo8t
> (where the slope downward toward the street is obvious)
>
> http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/stpeters/frntwcol.jpg
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA