between Egyptian carpentry (seeFig. 83), and much of the joinery of the modern Japanese.—Ed. 2 In this figure we have attempted to give some notion of what a wooden buildingmust have been like in ancient Egypt, judging from the imitations of assembledconstruction which have been found in the tombs… … Fig. 84.—Wooden building (second system), composed hy Charles Chipiez. which, by contrast, might be called an open system of construction.The edifices upon which it was employed were generally of small Decoration. 119 size, and in this respect resembled those which we have described,but they were…
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