A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 166
PYRAMID have gained their great size from continual en-lan;iiig and rei-a.-^iiig during a long reign ; butthis is imi)nilial)le. At the same time it is notclear how a ))yramid, begmi on a great scaleduring the authors life, could have been finishediu case of his early death. The )iyran)ids are… … iYKAMID : To.\IB OF CAIUS CE.STIUS AT RoME. establishment, for all classes, of the grotto tombduring the Middle Empire. Even at a stilllater time the same form was used on a smallscale for private persons. The royal pyrami<ls are numerous; but nonehave been made the subject of architecturalstudy…
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