A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 427
ich Pveuim describes as mono-litliism, viz., the employment of immenseblocks of masonry, essentially Phoenician, notonly in its origin, but in its continuance through- SYRIA the great labour involved in detaching them, asit were, from tlie main block. In Roman work,capitals, shafts, and biuses, and… … Stria, Architkcture of: The so-called Pkktorium at Mls.migeh, built aeolt 170 a.d. out the early periods. From this characteristicthe native builders seem never to have emanci-pated themselves, and throughout the Jewish,the Roman, and the early Christian periods,they employed in their building…
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