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Musée d’ Archéologie. GHENT. 6. Route. 67
floor below is occupied by a spacious banqueting-hall, the scanty
lighting of which is to be explained by the fact that the festivities
were usually celebrated by the light of torches and candles. The
lower part of the walls of this hall date from the original build-
ing on this site, as does also the adjoining apartment. We next
t the ground-floor of the E, addition (No. 39), and the N. ad-
dition, which contained the kitchen. — We now regain the castle-
yard and walk round the entire donjon (glancing at its basement-
story from the S. end).
In the outer wall, near the N.W. angle of the donjon, is the
old castle-well (No. 45). Thence we proceed to the N.E. expansion
of the castle- yard and reach the rear-entrance (No. 46) of the
vaulted Cellars, that extend along the passage skirting the E. wall.
These were originally the stables, but after the counts gave up
permanent residence in the castle, and especially under the In-
quisition in the 15th cent., they were used as torture-chambers
and for secret executions. Four skeletons found here in 1904, and
now preserved in a chest to the left, are memorials of this gloomy
period. The principal entrance to the stables was by the 8. door,
to which the horses ascended by a sloping wooden gangway. — We
now quit the castle by the gate-house.
We may take a final view of the water-front of the castle, with
its towers and buttresses, from the gardens in the Rue de la Monnaie
(p. 65).
The Rue de la Monnaie (see p. 65; tramway) ends on the N. at
the Rue Longue des Pierres (Lange Steenstraat), in which, im-
mediately to the right, is the old Carmelite church now occupied
by the municipal *Musée d’Archéologie, or Museum van Oudheden
(Pl. C, 3), the most valuable of its kind in Belgium, Adm., see
p. 55. Curator, A. van Werveke.
To the right of the entrance are chests, carved panelling, etc. ; to the left,
between the glass-cases, are torch-hoJders, which were used in the process-
ions of the guilds. In the cases, Stamps for medals; porcelain; Hispano-
Moorish majo Delft and Brussels fayence (17-18th cent.); Walloon and
Rhenish stoneware. In the 2nd case on the left, *Tabard with the arms
of Albert and Isabella (p. xxiy). On the left wall are a large representa-
tion, by J. B. van Volasom (1728), of Charles VI. receiving homage in the
Marché du Vendredi in 1717, and a battle-flag of Ghent-of 1483. Farther
on are gala costumes of the 18th cent., and above them twelve paintings
(Nos. 1868-72 attributed to @. de Grayer) from a triumphal arch erected in
the Marché du Vendredi at the entry of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand
in 1635. — In the choir-apse is the throne of Emp. Joseph II., used when
receiving homage in 1781. The frescoes (1346) represent the guilds of Ghent
in arms. To the right of the choir is a chest with six silyer-gilt “Badges,
part of the insignia of the Ghent town-pipers (including four by Corn.
de Bont), along with their leathern cases; close by are the copper-gilt se-
pulchral tablet of Leonard Betten (d. 1607), Abbot of St. Truiden, by Libert
van Egheem of Malines. and the sepulchral brasses of Willem Wenemar
(d. 1825) and his wife Margareta s’ Brunen (d. 1352). — Farther on, in the
glass cases, are locks and other specimens of wrought iron work and the
Ceramic Collection, including a fragment of a figure of a warrior (42th cent.).
— In the chapels: 1. Headsman’s swords of the 15-18th cent., chiefly made
in Solingen, implements of punishment and torture; 2. Iron weights, locks, |