A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 617
owns ofSyria have the stone-built edifices kept theirshape and ordonnance. Figure 1 shows a veryearly Greco-Roman window, probably of thethinl century, and we need not doubt that suchopenings as this were somewhat common inRoman country hoiuses. This window is in thesecond story, the larger opening… … Window, Fig. 2: Private House at Khurbet-Hass. the spanning of the opening by a lintel, and thesupporting of that hntel by uprights, as well asthe apparent serving of pilasters for the samepurpose, are the essential characteristics. Thewindow is here what it became so commonly inlater times, a…
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