A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 200
tiv.ils and D.^lphie on.eles. sothat we lind tlie same type use.! lor the old He-neum at Olympia, the IleeatompiMlon at Athens,and for the temples at Corinth, yEgina, andDelphi. It is the ancient megaron developed,with the principal addition of an enclosing col-onnade, or peristyle, and built of… … GREECE ble. Architectural terra cotta (mouldings, rooftiles, antefixie, etc.) are found at various sites,but of similar patterns, as though having ema-nated from one central manufactory. At Olym-pia, the treasury of Gela had a stone corniceencased with terra cotta. The institution ofreligious…
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