An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... portico decorated with twisted columns of Tabriz marble , leading through two brazen gates , whose extremities are of silver , and their whole surface sculptured and embossed with flowers , and verses from the Koran . Advancing into the ...
... portico decorated with twisted columns of Tabriz marble , leading through two brazen gates , whose extremities are of silver , and their whole surface sculptured and embossed with flowers , and verses from the Koran . Advancing into the ...
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... portico , stretching through the whole front ( 364 ft . ) of the temple , and its depth was half its extent . The cell , or main body of the temple , was 54 ft . deep , and the sanctuary beyond 365 feet , the height of it being equal to ...
... portico , stretching through the whole front ( 364 ft . ) of the temple , and its depth was half its extent . The cell , or main body of the temple , was 54 ft . deep , and the sanctuary beyond 365 feet , the height of it being equal to ...
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... portico were two pillars of brass , which were cast by Hiram , " a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali , " whose " father was a man of Tyre , " and who " came to king Solomon and wrought all his work . " These two pillars of brass ( 1 ...
... portico were two pillars of brass , which were cast by Hiram , " a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali , " whose " father was a man of Tyre , " and who " came to king Solomon and wrought all his work . " These two pillars of brass ( 1 ...
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... portico of columns . The roof is of the form of a vault , 40 ft . from the ground to its crown , and has the appearance of being supported by thirty pillars , octagonal in plan , whose capitals and bases are formed of elephants , tigers ...
... portico of columns . The roof is of the form of a vault , 40 ft . from the ground to its crown , and has the appearance of being supported by thirty pillars , octagonal in plan , whose capitals and bases are formed of elephants , tigers ...
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... portico , consisting of one hundred columns , whose roof is formed by large blocks of stone . The last is a square court with a temple and piscina , to which is given the name of the Stream of Eternal Joy . To the temple is attached a ...
... portico , consisting of one hundred columns , whose roof is formed by large blocks of stone . The last is a square court with a temple and piscina , to which is given the name of the Stream of Eternal Joy . To the temple is attached a ...
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