A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 387
had a granite shaft about 50 feet high, whichhas been destroyed ; but the marble pedestal,decorated with reliefs, is in the Giardiiio dellaPignu, in the Vatican. COLUMN OF CUSSI. A few miles south-west of Beaune ((ote tlOr) in Bnrgunily ; of mans and Sarmatians, and which was copiedclosely from the… … Columnar Architectuiie: Octastyle Peripteral Temple at Baalbek in Syria; the Entrance Portico Dipteral. The shafts of the outer peristyle are smooth ; the eight shalts within are llutetl ami lorni a proiiaos with its own entablature. Roman epoch. It has still standing a jiedestalin two stories and…
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