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 58
heir details the exteriorsof the wooden dwellings of the natives,and this imitation is in some cases extend-ed to the interior chambers.ANXANUM. See Lanciano. AOSTA (anc. Augusta Pra>toria). Italy. Ihe Triumphal Arch is a massivestructure about -tO ft. by 85 ft., piercedby a single arch 30 ft.… … Fig. 11,—Aosta, Arch of Augustus. pilasters bears on its entablature thewide archivolt. The attic which probablycrowned it has disappeared, and witli itthe inscription, but the arch is believed tohave been built by Terentius Varro to thehonor of Augustus, in commemorationof his victory over the…
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