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 246
Thecentral octagon is inscribed in a circle of100 ft. radius : the naves are 36 ft. wide,the aisles IS ft. IMie columns, standingon pedestals, are iX ft. high, and thewhole walls 49 ft. Wliile the four navesabut against the four cardinal sides of the KALAT octagon, tlio aisles are foiitinned along-… … Fig. 98.—Kalat Siman. parts a clear view of the central column.The clerestory was a continuous row ofround-arched windows, between whichstood a series of colonnettes on corbels,carrying other corbels that suj^ported the of buildings which the front of the nave, ending appar-ently like the rest in a…
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