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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 550

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afters meet, whicli should be carried up abovethe horizontal ridge, and this cuhninatiiig pointis especially that which is the epi. In Engli-sh,the adornment of such a point. Usually thesedecorations are made of metal, as of lead duringthe Middle Ages, and still in England ; of cop-per in the… … Epi: Wrought Leah; Hi>rsE of Jacques Cceur, BOCRGES. EPINAOS. In Grecian archajology, a backvestiliulc, us of ;i temple : opposed to Pronaos.(See Opisthodiiuius: rusticuni.) EPISCENIUM; EPISCENOS. In clas-sical arclueology, the arcliitectural structure backof the stage of a theatre, ami which…

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