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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 429

An illustration from A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive, 1901, leaf 429 — rtheast endof the Haram enclosure. This method ofbreaking up the wall surface with wideprojecting pilaster strips might be regardedas a third Syrian characteristic, exceptthat it is confined to early work. TheRoman pilasters have Corinthian capitals.There are known one or two exampleswith cavetto… … m^mM Details of the CHURfH of S._Simp;on Stylites atKalat SEM-iN. are found at Souideh, close by, and referred tothe same period. The tombs in the Kedron valley and othersThe cavetto SYRIA cornice wliicli crowns tlic so-chHihI tombs ofZaclijiriah and of Alisaloni, and the pyramidauumg the former,…

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