An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... examples are found in Attica . It may be here mentioned that , in the Etrurian part of Italy we find examples of Cyclopean works of the class , which Mr. Hamilton places in the second æra ; as at Norba in Latium , Cora , Signia , and ...
... examples are found in Attica . It may be here mentioned that , in the Etrurian part of Italy we find examples of Cyclopean works of the class , which Mr. Hamilton places in the second æra ; as at Norba in Latium , Cora , Signia , and ...
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... example from the Indra Subba which much resembles it in detail , and at the Nerta Chabei at Chillambaram are very similar examples . Between the styles of Persepolis and Egypt a resemblance will be hereafter traced , and to such an ...
... example from the Indra Subba which much resembles it in detail , and at the Nerta Chabei at Chillambaram are very similar examples . Between the styles of Persepolis and Egypt a resemblance will be hereafter traced , and to such an ...
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... examples occur at the entrance of the sanctuary of a temple in the same city . Hexa- Fig . 56 . COLUMNS gonal ones are described by Norden , and Pococke mentions one of a form triangular on the plan . We do not at present remember any ...
... examples occur at the entrance of the sanctuary of a temple in the same city . Hexa- Fig . 56 . COLUMNS gonal ones are described by Norden , and Pococke mentions one of a form triangular on the plan . We do not at present remember any ...
Page 52
... examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius , - from all which may be learned the abuses and incongruities which attended the fall , not only of ...
... examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius , - from all which may be learned the abuses and incongruities which attended the fall , not only of ...
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... examples . For this purpose , several buildings have been arranged in the following table , wherein the first column exhibits the Dame of the building ; the second the height of the column , of the example as a nume rator , and its ...
... examples . For this purpose , several buildings have been arranged in the following table , wherein the first column exhibits the Dame of the building ; the second the height of the column , of the example as a nume rator , and its ...
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