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 32
andof vertical reeding with anXXX pattern beneath it. This may be tracedback on the representation of buildings onobjects of the first dynasties, and when wefind on the earliest example known of thegorge that the vertical divisions do not suggestleaves, but are rounded like the reeding, itseems… … Fig. 7, 30 ARCHITECTURE promise between the horizontal and thevertical. In the pre-dynastic age hard stone had beencut with wonderful precision into vases ofvarious forms. In building wrought stoneseems to have been first used during the FirstDynasty; a pavement of fair stone slabs hasbeen found of…
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