The newly anointed and crowned sovereign would be seated on a great raised dais. The steps to the dais were said to have been flanked by immense balustrades. In 1953, the chair stood atop a dais of several steps. Saladin, his face joyful, was sitting on his dais, the unbelievers showed black despair. It sits on an octagonal dais, above the floor. Two heavenly kings stand on either side of the dais. Each panel is crowned by a richly decorated dais. When Caesar approached the speaker's dais, a hush fell over the mutinous soldiers. A central location was chosen for constructing the raised, stone dais or platform. He surrounds himself with scantily-clad slave girls of all species, chained to his dais. Singh finds Yadav and drags him by his collar to the Speaker's dais. It has a dais and a Jacobean stone screen, high, decorated with 92 shields. The three vocalists are accompanied by Francesca Simone, Venzella Joy and Lauren Dais as bandmates. A bomb explosion on the dais seriously injured him. Bartholdi, observed near the dais, was called upon to speak, but he declined.