In the wall facing the entrant, which is that running from the Yemen corner to the Syrian, are five marble panels set lengthways as if they were doors.  The come down to a distance of five spans from the ground, and each one of them is about a man’s stature in height.  Three of them are red, and two green, and all have white tessellations so that I have never seen a more beautiful sight.  They are as if speckled.  A red one adjoins the Yemen corner, and next to it at a distance of five spans is a green […lots about slabs] The sides of these marble slabs are braced by cornices, two fingers wide, of marble tessellated with spotted greens and reds, and speckled whites, that are like wands worked on a lathe, such as to stagger the imagination.