A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 186
ongly fortified palaces indicate established cen-tres of monarchical government, with types ofarchitecture so strongly marked as to becomefixed for centuries. These types follow alongthe lines of Grecian architecture of the previousperiod, but show more advanced construction,with decorative forms… … still to have had flat clay roofs, althoughthe conical false vaults of the beehive tombs GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE inilicate the possibility that domical coiistructioumay liave been used in the building cf houses.The column was now employed as a supiwrtingmember in the palace porches and in tlic…
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