An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... pyramids of Egypt , and that they were the works of a colony of the great nation that was at the earliest period settled in central Asia , either through the swarm that passed north - west over Germany , or south - west through Phenicia ...
... pyramids of Egypt , and that they were the works of a colony of the great nation that was at the earliest period settled in central Asia , either through the swarm that passed north - west over Germany , or south - west through Phenicia ...
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... pyramids , supposing the furlong to contain only 500 feet . On this tower as a base were raised , in regular succession , seven other lofty towers , and the whole , according to Diodorus , crowned with a bronze statue of the god Belus ...
... pyramids , supposing the furlong to contain only 500 feet . On this tower as a base were raised , in regular succession , seven other lofty towers , and the whole , according to Diodorus , crowned with a bronze statue of the god Belus ...
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... pyramid , or sepulchre of Belus , whose base , accordi g to Strabo , was a stadium on each side . It stood in an enclosure of two miles and a ha L and contained the temple in which divine honours were paid to the tutelary deity of Bal y ...
... pyramid , or sepulchre of Belus , whose base , accordi g to Strabo , was a stadium on each side . It stood in an enclosure of two miles and a ha L and contained the temple in which divine honours were paid to the tutelary deity of Bal y ...
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... pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and the Hermes Canis ( which last bears a great resemblance to the VarƔhƔvatƔr , or the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of a boar ) , indicate ...
... pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and the Hermes Canis ( which last bears a great resemblance to the VarƔhƔvatƔr , or the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of a boar ) , indicate ...
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... 88 : Ā· 47 040 000 00 DO 57. The most celebrated excavated temple is that of Elephanta. Fig 37. VIEW INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE INDRA SUBHA INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF ELEPHANTA pyramid of Cheops ,. 26 BOOK L HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE .
... 88 : Ā· 47 040 000 00 DO 57. The most celebrated excavated temple is that of Elephanta. Fig 37. VIEW INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE INDRA SUBHA INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF ELEPHANTA pyramid of Cheops ,. 26 BOOK L HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE .
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