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Architectura numismatica; or, Architectural medals of classic antiquity: illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors, and copious text. One hundred lithographs and woodcuts (1859)

Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 1795-1885 · London, Day & son · leaf 198

An illustration from Architectura numismatica; or, Architectural medals of classic antiquity: illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors, and copious text. One hundred lithographs and woodcuts, 1859, leaf 198
is the propyleum or entranceportico, leading to the great Temple of Baalbec; andreference to the work of Wood and Dawkins, and thatof Cassias, identifies immediately the medal with thebuilding. A flight of steps, equal in height to thecolumns themselves, extends almost along the wholefront of the… … PROPYLEA- OF • TEMPLE-OF-JVPITER- SOL BAALBECHELIOPOLISNO 3 5

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