Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 150
rcountries of the ideas on which the two first Greek Orders, especiallythe Doric, were founded, has been fairly proved, it seems less un-reasonable to believe that the idea of the Corinthian capital was alsotaken from Eg^-pt, although the Greeks attribute its invention to anartist of their own… … AQWW<S•LE^F■®■G^P7CWER;OFT&WIND5 Fig. 69. having died, her nurse placed inthe tomb a bracket on which wereset objects most dear to her mis-tress, and for protection from therain she also placed a large tileover the bracket. A wild acan-th.us, w^hose roots were under-neath the offering,…
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