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 337
inthian columns. Three of theinterior columns are still erect, with thepedestals of many others. The frieze andthe capitals are very delicately sculptured.The large apse opposite the tetrastyle por-tico is still standing; it has niches andpedimented windows. A broken archi-trave-block bears the… … Fig. 136.—Palmyra, Street Colonnade. for statues. They probably formed thefronts of a system of covered porticoesalong the street, and there is indicationthat there was above a second story withsmaller columns. The ranges of columnsextended for a distance of nearly threequarters of a mile, and…
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