A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 156
the base-diameter of thecolumns. The pediments were ornament-ed with sculptures, which appear to havebeen placed, not in the tympana, buton pedestals like steps along the slopesabove the upper cornice. The interior ofthe cella was surrounded with a range ofsmall columns which supported… … Fig. 60—Damascus, Great Mosque. anil towers, particulaiIy two line octagonal towers. DAMASCUS, Syria. The Great Mosque is built, accordingto tradition, on tlie site of an early Cliris-tian chun-ii. perliaps of a still older tem-ple. It occupies a quadrangle about 500ft. by 320 ft.—tlie longer…
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