An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... similar to those in other parts of the place . To its north , M exhibits uniform features , with windows , and what travellers have agreed to call niches , which are nothing more than square - headed recesses . Sculpture here again ...
... similar to those in other parts of the place . To its north , M exhibits uniform features , with windows , and what travellers have agreed to call niches , which are nothing more than square - headed recesses . Sculpture here again ...
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... similar in style . 54. Phoenician Architecture . That part of the great nation of Asia which settled on the coasts of Palestine , called in scripture Canaanites , or merchants , were afterwards by the Greeks called Phoenicians . Sidon ...
... similar in style . 54. Phoenician Architecture . That part of the great nation of Asia which settled on the coasts of Palestine , called in scripture Canaanites , or merchants , were afterwards by the Greeks called Phoenicians . Sidon ...
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... similar to those we have named are found at CanƔrah , in the Island of Salsette , near Bombay . In these there are four stories of galleries , leading in all to three hundred apartments . The front is formed by cutting away one side of ...
... similar to those we have named are found at CanƔrah , in the Island of Salsette , near Bombay . In these there are four stories of galleries , leading in all to three hundred apartments . The front is formed by cutting away one side of ...
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... similar entrance court . The court was sometimes common to several houses . Large mansions were detached , having often different entrances on their several sides , with portals very similar in form to those of their temples . These ...
... similar entrance court . The court was sometimes common to several houses . Large mansions were detached , having often different entrances on their several sides , with portals very similar in form to those of their temples . These ...
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... similar origin and language . Their works , though they attest the infancy of art , bear a striking resemblance to several monuments of the most civilised people . The rigid adherence of the people to the forms , opinions , and customs ...
... similar origin and language . Their works , though they attest the infancy of art , bear a striking resemblance to several monuments of the most civilised people . The rigid adherence of the people to the forms , opinions , and customs ...
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