A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 446
ways to the valleyof tiie Nile, produced, however, a temple systemstrongly in contrast with that of Egypt. luEgypt the temple overshadows in imixirtanceall other structures. In Mesopotamia it is thepalace which ]iuts the temple in a secondaryplace. Tile tem])les of Egypt, built for themost part of… … Templk, Fig. 4; the Erechtheum at Athens;containing at least three separateShrines. Hexastyle Ionic Portico partly INDICATED BY THE THREE PuRTICOES ; TET- rastyle Ionic Portico with Two Columns IN RETURN ; AND BELOW, TeTRASTYLE PORTICO OF Caryatides with Two Figures in return. ever, of the…
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