Double Gate passageway northeast dome

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Description

The northeast dome of the Double Gate Passageway isonly partially decorated. Two decorated pendentive stones of the Herodian dome have survived at opposite corners of this dome .

This dome may have fallen during the original construction or because of an earthquake.

Nevertheless, it is possible to reconstruct a large wreath of interweaving strands that create scrolls filled with rosettes in between two egg-and-dart motives that surrounded a central design that, apart from a wave pattern has not survived.