An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... Greeks , who , as Jacob Bryant says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments ... Greek word Ļpiwv ( a saw ) , nor its equivalent , is to be found in his works . DƦdalus is considered , however , by ...
... Greeks , who , as Jacob Bryant says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments ... Greek word Ļpiwv ( a saw ) , nor its equivalent , is to be found in his works . DƦdalus is considered , however , by ...
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... Greek fables about the Cyclopeans have been sufficiently exposed by Jacob Bryant , who has shown that the Greeks knew nothing about their own early history . Herodotus ( lib . v . cap 57. et seq . ) alludes to them under the name of ...
... Greek fables about the Cyclopeans have been sufficiently exposed by Jacob Bryant , who has shown that the Greeks knew nothing about their own early history . Herodotus ( lib . v . cap 57. et seq . ) alludes to them under the name of ...
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... Greek and Etrurian artists , yet they are certainly in a style superior to the works of the Egyptians ; and we infer from them a favourable opinion of the state of the arts in India at the period of their formation . " It is worthy of ...
... Greek and Etrurian artists , yet they are certainly in a style superior to the works of the Egyptians ; and we infer from them a favourable opinion of the state of the arts in India at the period of their formation . " It is worthy of ...
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... Greek Ptolemaic inscription on the cliff , tombs in the rock with inscriptions on the doors , hieroglyphic tablets , & c . On the east bank , seven miles above Minieh , Kom Ahmar , where are mounds of an old town ; at a short distance ...
... Greek Ptolemaic inscription on the cliff , tombs in the rock with inscriptions on the doors , hieroglyphic tablets , & c . On the east bank , seven miles above Minieh , Kom Ahmar , where are mounds of an old town ; at a short distance ...
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... Greek inscrip- Fig . 67 . TEMPLE AT TENTYRA . tion of Temple of Pan , and remains of other stone buildings . Exten- sive mounds at Mensheeyah ( No. 19. ) ( Ptolemais Hermii ) ; twelve miles south from Girgeh , is Abydus ( Arabat el ...
... Greek inscrip- Fig . 67 . TEMPLE AT TENTYRA . tion of Temple of Pan , and remains of other stone buildings . Exten- sive mounds at Mensheeyah ( No. 19. ) ( Ptolemais Hermii ) ; twelve miles south from Girgeh , is Abydus ( Arabat el ...
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