A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 508
r ofsuch Ionic columns, with capitals having moreprojecting volutes than if they were in-tended to support architraves, originally _stood on the Athenian Acropolis, werethrown down by the Persian invaders, usedas building material, and Lately recovered.One of them bore a piece of sculpturesigned by… … MEMORIAL COLUMNthe enclosure of the Olympian Zeus, Athens.Of remaining columns there are but two groupsof this period, both in North Syria, and Iwthdecorating great funeral mounds. At Kara-Kusch are three groups of tiiree columns (about25 feet high) around the edge of a royaltumulus 110 metres in…
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