Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 305
might be strangled or debasedby the recrudescence of local styles, but here it was preserved in a surprisingpurity. The buildings at Kuseir cAmra consist of a great hall covered by three barrelvaults running north and south, with a central niche and two apsed lateralchambers at the south end.… … Fig. 170. Painting of the eighth century on vault of chamber at Kuseir Amra.(After Kusejr Amra, by A. Musil and others : Vienna. K. Akademie der Wissenschaften.^ baths, and that the first, or cold bath, was beneath the dome and enteredthrough a small court on the east.1 The great hall may be…
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