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 90
the propyhea and two fore-courts. Six enormous Corinthian col-umns of the south peristyle alone remainstanding, with their entablature. Thecolumns are unfluted, about 60 ft. highand 7i ft. in diameter, the shafts formedof only three drums, the cajiitals and thedetails of frieze and entaldaturc of… … 1. Great Temple. 2. Basilica. 3. Temple of the Sun. Fig. 29—Baalbek, Roman Ruins. -.110 l^il. Tlir plan measured IHO ft. hyft. {See Fkj. ;../.) JlJOlYL.KA OF Tin: ClIKAT IkMII.K.The platronu (jT the exterior pculiro is a 15AALHEK rectniiglo about 2G0 ft. wide and 30 ft.decii. the tli)i)i- of which…
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