An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 102
ation ; but their reigns were unfortunately too short todo it substantial service. The extraordinary structures at Baalbec and Palmyra have been-eferred, on the authority of a fragment of John of Antioch, surnamed Malala, to the ageof Antoninus Pius ; but we are inclined to think the style places… … Fig. tl2. wliere the two lAbanons unite, about fifty miles to the north-west of Damascus. Thetirst traveller who described it with accuracy was IMaundrell, in his Journey from Alep])o to Jerusalem, in 1697. It has, however, been since visited, as wellas Palmyra, by Messrs. Wood andDawkins, in 1751,…
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