An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... pyramids of Egypt , and that they were the works of a colony of the great nation that was at the earliest period settled in central Asia , either through the swarm that passed north - west over Germany , or south - west through ...
... pyramids of Egypt , and that they were the works of a colony of the great nation that was at the earliest period settled in central Asia , either through the swarm that passed north - west over Germany , or south - west through ...
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... pyramids , supposing the furlong to contain only 500 feet . On this tower as a base were raised , in regular succession , seven other lofty towers , and the whole , according to Diodorus , crowned with a bronze statue of the god Belus ...
... pyramids , supposing the furlong to contain only 500 feet . On this tower as a base were raised , in regular succession , seven other lofty towers , and the whole , according to Diodorus , crowned with a bronze statue of the god Belus ...
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... pyramid , or sepulchre of Belus , whose base , according to Strabo , was a stadium on each side . It stood in an enclosure of two miles and a half , and contained the temple in which divine honours were paid to the tutelary deity of ...
... pyramid , or sepulchre of Belus , whose base , according to Strabo , was a stadium on each side . It stood in an enclosure of two miles and a half , and contained the temple in which divine honours were paid to the tutelary deity of ...
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... pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and the Hermes Canis ( which last bears a great resemblance to the Varáhávatár , or the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of a boar ) , indicate ...
... pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and the Hermes Canis ( which last bears a great resemblance to the Varáhávatár , or the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of a boar ) , indicate ...
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... whole length of the chain is 146 ft . The pyramids Fig . 11 . bove mentioned , which stand over the entrances of the. PIT.ASTER FROM THR NERTA CHABEI . Fig . 45. SECTION OF PYRAMID OF CHEOPS . 28 Book I. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE .
... whole length of the chain is 146 ft . The pyramids Fig . 11 . bove mentioned , which stand over the entrances of the. PIT.ASTER FROM THR NERTA CHABEI . Fig . 45. SECTION OF PYRAMID OF CHEOPS . 28 Book I. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE .
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