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Door Piers
One of the coolest features of courtyard entryways are the door piers known as mendun’r. Architecturally, mendun’r were the mounts that secured wooden doorframes to residence walls. The baseboard between mendun’r forced you to step over it – and also kept out malign influences, since those that didn’t fly only shuffled their feet.

Mendun’r were created in two symbolic shapes. Round ones represented drums and meant the owner had military connections; rectangular ones were belts connoting scholar-officials. Size mattered; the bigger the door pier, the more important the occupant. Art motifs hewn in stone hint at the profession of the occupant while ones with a lion on top indicated royal blood.
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