A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 420
which Reuan describes as mouo-lithism, viz., the employment of immenseblocks of masonry, essentially Phoenician, notonly in its origin, but in its continuance thiough- SYRIA the great labour involved in detaching them, asit were, from the main block. In Roman work,capitals, shafts, and ba-ses, and… … Stria, AKrHiTKcii i;i-: of: The so-< allkh PE:KuiKn;M ai Mi -mu.eh. i;ii..i Auui i 170 A.D. out the early periods. From this characteristicthe native builders seem never to have emanci-pated themselves, and throughout the Jewish,the Roman, and the early Christian periods,they employed in their…
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