Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 22
RS OF ARCHITECTURE Of an(M(Mit buildings, the only ones which have come down to usin any sort of preservation are the temples buiU for the religious wor-ship of the various peoples. All their domestic architecture wasevidently of such an ephemeral character that it has long since dis-appeared. It… … Fig. 31. Egyptian Rock-Cut Temple. wise never have invented for their ordinary .shelters, or even for thepalaces of their kings and rulers, the impressive forms that have sur-vived. But, more than this, we know that many of the different partsof architecture had at one time a direct religious…
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