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 35
of. Petrie says, the civiliza-tion that we find before usin the earliest-known historyappears elaborate and perfect. • . . Fewdiscoveries of importance were made duringthousands of years which ensued. Thehieroglyphs at Meydum showed that at thebeginning of the Fourth Dynasty nearlyall the… … Fig. 11. ORIGINS OF ARCHITECTURE 83 whitened and painted. The interior of thetomb at Hieraconpolis had its walls paintedwith ships on the river, and with huntingscenes on its banks. The exteriors of crudebrick buildings were plastered and colouredin bands. Such colouring appears on afourth-dynasty…
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