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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 436

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-ditions of building, and famous ancient shrineshave been explored in modern times without thediscovery of any indications of permanent archi-tectural structures. On the other hand, thereare several buildings of unknown date whichare extremely interesting, the most iniijortantof these being that… … Cymatium from .a. House near Serd.iilla,Syria, c. 400 a.d. formed of a single stone shaped on the underside to a hollow curve, as if in imitation of avault. At Kouklia, among the ruins of oldPaphos, are the foundations of a temple ofAphrodite, and traces of another are to be foundat Golgoi. Salamis…

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