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 29
od was first built,and it was then enclosed with brickwork;these crude brick walls around the pit wereonly a protective shell around the woodenchamber which contained the body. Doubt-less houses for the living as well as those forthe dead were at this time constructed ofwrought timber. Some… … were made of cut stone. In these representa-tions we already find posts which are theprototypes of later stone columns, havingswelling projections at the top like capitals. On inscriptions fromthe First Dynasty weoften find a sign (readtent)like mexceptthat the horizontalbar is curved. Thesame…
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