An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, 1888 - 1443 Seiten |
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... columns ( originally four ) . The bottom of the first is covered with two blocks of stone , which fill two thirds of the space ; the other third having been destroyed by time . The second por- tal is more covered by the earth than the ...
... columns ( originally four ) . The bottom of the first is covered with two blocks of stone , which fill two thirds of the space ; the other third having been destroyed by time . The second por- tal is more covered by the earth than the ...
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... columns of the central group are fifty - five feet high ; and those of the other three groups are sixty feet in height . To the south of the three groups of columns is situate the most raised building on these ruins . On the east ...
... columns of the central group are fifty - five feet high ; and those of the other three groups are sixty feet in height . To the south of the three groups of columns is situate the most raised building on these ruins . On the east ...
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... columns . The windows glazed with curiously stained glass of a variety of colours ; each has a fountain in front . The palace of Chehel Sitoon or forty pillars , is placed in the middle of an immense square intersected by canals , and ...
... columns . The windows glazed with curiously stained glass of a variety of colours ; each has a fountain in front . The palace of Chehel Sitoon or forty pillars , is placed in the middle of an immense square intersected by canals , and ...
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... columns of Egypt with their lotus leaves , and sometimes net - work . In short , the whole description would almost as well apply to a temple of Egypt as to one at Jerusalem . And this tends , Fig . 31. though slightly it is true , to ...
... columns of Egypt with their lotus leaves , and sometimes net - work . In short , the whole description would almost as well apply to a temple of Egypt as to one at Jerusalem . And this tends , Fig . 31. though slightly it is true , to ...
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... columns themselves . A great portion of the walls is co- vered with colossal human figures , forty to fifty in number , in high relief , and distin- guished by a variety of symbols , probably representing the attributes of the deities ...
... columns themselves . A great portion of the walls is co- vered with colossal human figures , forty to fifty in number , in high relief , and distin- guished by a variety of symbols , probably representing the attributes of the deities ...
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