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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 102

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oom being rang-ed round an enclosure inthe open air. Portionsof Roman mosaics andfoundations of an earlierRoman building have beendiscovered under the soilof the Maison Carrie, thusshewing that it has beenerected at a later periodthan the first occupationof the site by the Romans.According to… … FIG. 2.T,. STATUE OF VENUS. ^2 ROMAN PERIOD. irregularities in the structure which would never havebeen tolerated in the earlier period,—such as, that thecolumns are not equally spaced, that there is an unequalnumber of modillions on the opposite sides, that thecaps are too low, and the shafts of…

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