An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ...
Page 48
... 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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... similar to it were afterwards raised in the other parts of Achaia , though , at that time , its proportions were not precisely established . When the Athenians , in a general assembly of the states of Greece , sent over into Asia , by ...
... similar to it were afterwards raised in the other parts of Achaia , though , at that time , its proportions were not precisely established . When the Athenians , in a general assembly of the states of Greece , sent over into Asia , by ...
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... similar to those in the roofs of the Grecian tem- ples . The atrium was , moreover , frequently embellished with fountains . It was in the atrium that the splendid columns which we have mentioned , as decorating the house of Scaurus ...
... similar to those in the roofs of the Grecian tem- ples . The atrium was , moreover , frequently embellished with fountains . It was in the atrium that the splendid columns which we have mentioned , as decorating the house of Scaurus ...
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