Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 144
kindshown in frontispiece,which, as said above,is Coptic, but the material is marble. Alto-gether there is already a great probabilitythat the school of carving which developedthe noble Byzantine orders was transferredto Constantinople from Egypt — probablyAlexandria — by Justinian. Prototypes… … Fig. 27. 142 ARCHITECTURE the abacus have been found in Hellenisticworks. Recently, at El Bagawat in a great oasis,some ruins of a large cemetery have beenexplored. It is so extensive that it has beencalled the Christian Pompeii. Probably thereare nearly two hundred burial chapels, alarge number of…
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