A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 440
nception of the peculiar windingterminations of the labels of the window jambscan be understood ; which, instead of descend-ing vertically on the sills, are carried round toan adjoining window or door, or terminate in SYRIA large circular rosaces. In the decoration of theexterior of their apses,… … Stone Door i.v the Basilica of Tafkha. The object of these attached shafts (sometimescarried on corbels) would appear to have beento give support to a boldly projecting corbeltable carrying the gutter, with intermediatecorbels between. Many of the tombs in north Syria, especiallythe examples…
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