A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 40
, and ofmen sharing in tlie feast of the gods by eatingparts of the creature sacrificed, it renulined es-sential to have some altars large enough to carrya fire of a certain intensity. Altars, tlierefore,were of all sizes, from a slender column aboutthree feet high, with a fiat top i)erha|)s… … Alt.\k: Gric( o-Ro.man Woiik. as a general rule. It wouhl,, however, be withinthe temenos or sacred enclosure. The altars of the Jews as reeonled in the OldTestament did not essentially dificr from thoseof ])agan antiquity ; as indeed the uses to whichthey were ])ut were altogether similar. The…
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