A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 349
een two lengths of pipe, made by theinsertion of the spigot end of one into thefaucet end of the other, as explained underSpigot; called also Spigot Joint. SPIKE. A ]iointed bar or strip, commonlyof iron, as in a grille or the cresting of a wall.In the United States, more commonly a verylarge nail.… … Jl ILlMSES II. .A.T .A.Iil- SlMBEL, UPPER Ec.YPT. The name given to this image is tran.sliteratedHu, or more fullj-, Horemkhu, a word havingconnection with the god Horns, and otherandrosphinxes seem to have received the samename. Such images cut out of single blocksof granite and of all sizes up to…
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