An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... quarries , which furnish stone similar to that whereof it is built . It had entrances from the east and the west , and one at the south - eastern angle . That on the east , lettered A , is pretty fairly preserved , and is approached by ...
... quarries , which furnish stone similar to that whereof it is built . It had entrances from the east and the west , and one at the south - eastern angle . That on the east , lettered A , is pretty fairly preserved , and is approached by ...
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... quarries produced . Subterranean apartments , it will be said , are found in other countries ; but they will mostly , India excepted , be found to be the remains of abandoned quarrries , exhibiting no traces of architecture , nor places ...
... quarries produced . Subterranean apartments , it will be said , are found in other countries ; but they will mostly , India excepted , be found to be the remains of abandoned quarrries , exhibiting no traces of architecture , nor places ...
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... quarries of it were seated near the Nile in Upper Egypt , between the first cataract and the town of Assouan , now Syene . The whole of the country to the east , the islands , and the bed of the Nile itself , are of this red granite ...
... quarries of it were seated near the Nile in Upper Egypt , between the first cataract and the town of Assouan , now Syene . The whole of the country to the east , the islands , and the bed of the Nile itself , are of this red granite ...
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... quarry . At El Hareib ( No. 15. ) , the ruins of an old town . Asyoot ( Lycopolis ) ( No. 16. ) , tombs . At Gow ( Antæopolis ) , a few stones of the temple close to the river . At Sheykh Hereedee , small caves ; and a statue of a man ...
... quarry . At El Hareib ( No. 15. ) , the ruins of an old town . Asyoot ( Lycopolis ) ( No. 16. ) , tombs . At Gow ( Antæopolis ) , a few stones of the temple close to the river . At Sheykh Hereedee , small caves ; and a statue of a man ...
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... quarries . At Kom- Ombo ( No. 27. ) ( Ombos ) are two temples , and a stone gate- way in a crude brick wall on the east side of the inclosure , Showing an earlier temple . At Assooan ( No. 28. ) ( Syene ) , ruins of a small Roman temple ...
... quarries . At Kom- Ombo ( No. 27. ) ( Ombos ) are two temples , and a stone gate- way in a crude brick wall on the east side of the inclosure , Showing an earlier temple . At Assooan ( No. 28. ) ( Syene ) , ruins of a small Roman temple ...
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