An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... length , indicates very advanced engineering skill ; but the most wonderful structure of the city was the tower , pyramid , or sepulchre of Belus , whose base , according to Strabo , was a stadium on each side . It stood in an enclosure ...
... length , indicates very advanced engineering skill ; but the most wonderful structure of the city was the tower , pyramid , or sepulchre of Belus , whose base , according to Strabo , was a stadium on each side . It stood in an enclosure ...
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... Length internally Height Temple of Adi - Natha . Length Temple of Djenonasla . Height Temple of Domma - Leyma . Length : - Temple of Indra . Length Width Height Height of columns Another Temple . Length Width Height Temple of Mahadeo ...
... Length internally Height Temple of Adi - Natha . Length Temple of Djenonasla . Height Temple of Domma - Leyma . Length : - Temple of Indra . Length Width Height Height of columns Another Temple . Length Width Height Temple of Mahadeo ...
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... length , and 936 ft . in width , whose walls are 30 ft . in height , and 7 ft . in thickness , each side being provided with a highly deco- rated frustum of a pyramid over an entrance gateway . The large enclosure is subdivided into ...
... length , and 936 ft . in width , whose walls are 30 ft . in height , and 7 ft . in thickness , each side being provided with a highly deco- rated frustum of a pyramid over an entrance gateway . The large enclosure is subdivided into ...
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... length and breadth of temples , as compared with the rules given by Vitruvius ( book iv . chap . 4. ) , that the length of a temple shall be double its breadth , and the cell itself in length one fourth part more than the breadth , in ...
... length and breadth of temples , as compared with the rules given by Vitruvius ( book iv . chap . 4. ) , that the length of a temple shall be double its breadth , and the cell itself in length one fourth part more than the breadth , in ...
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... length , and some of them 200 ft . high above the river . We do not , in closing our brief view of the bridges of the Romans , more than mention the extraordinary temporary bridge which Cæsar threw over the Rhine . 223. Aqueducts . It ...
... length , and some of them 200 ft . high above the river . We do not , in closing our brief view of the bridges of the Romans , more than mention the extraordinary temporary bridge which Cæsar threw over the Rhine . 223. Aqueducts . It ...
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