An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... Roman Egyptian temple . Koos ( No. 21. ) ( Apollinopolis parva ) , no ruins . At Thebes or Keneh ( Diospolis magna ) , on the east bank , are Carnak and Luxor ( No. 22. ) ( figs . 62. and 63. ) ; on the west , tombs of the kings ...
... Roman Egyptian temple . Koos ( No. 21. ) ( Apollinopolis parva ) , no ruins . At Thebes or Keneh ( Diospolis magna ) , on the east bank , are Carnak and Luxor ( No. 22. ) ( figs . 62. and 63. ) ; on the west , tombs of the kings ...
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... Roman town were discovered in a sandy plain : the vegetable food of Cairoan is brought from afar ; and the scarcity of springs constrains the inhabitants to collect , in cis- terns and reservoirs , a precarious supply of rain water ...
... Roman town were discovered in a sandy plain : the vegetable food of Cairoan is brought from afar ; and the scarcity of springs constrains the inhabitants to collect , in cis- terns and reservoirs , a precarious supply of rain water ...
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... Roman architecture of the period had fallen . For the sake of illustrating what we mean , we refer , as examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius ...
... Roman architecture of the period had fallen . For the sake of illustrating what we mean , we refer , as examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius ...
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... Roman citizens were not very much enlightened on the arts , or that he was a singular blockhead . We have now arrived at the period at which Greece was despoiled and Rome enriched , and must pursue the history of the art among the Romans ...
... Roman citizens were not very much enlightened on the arts , or that he was a singular blockhead . We have now arrived at the period at which Greece was despoiled and Rome enriched , and must pursue the history of the art among the Romans ...
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... Roman ; merely adding here , that in about a year after the death of Alexander the nation fell under the dominion of the Romans . SECT . XIII . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . 182. The Romans can scarcely be said to have had an original ...
... Roman ; merely adding here , that in about a year after the death of Alexander the nation fell under the dominion of the Romans . SECT . XIII . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . 182. The Romans can scarcely be said to have had an original ...
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