A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 438
which, though based in itsorigin on the monuments erected under Romanrule, would seem to have been able to throw offtheir trammels and to have evolved a homogene-733 SYRIA ous development, founded on the special reipiirc-ments of the Christian religion, with a simpleand rational constructional use… … Plan of the Stone House at Douma: 2nd-3rdCentury. In the Hauran the principal material was thebasaltic rock of the district, which, on accountof its hardness, allowed little decorative carving.The absence of timber also necessitated anentirely different system of design, both roofsand floors being…
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