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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 556

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their temjdes thanhas hitherto been ascribed to them. This mighthave been surmised from the rich decoration foumlon the sarcoi)hagi and tombs, both moilelled inimitation of actual structures. The discovery inlate years made in Civita Lavinia, or Lanuvium,of a large collecticju of terra cotta… … ETltUS< AN ToMli AT CEKVETKI (AncIENT C..EUKI. LiiNOITUDlNAl, Sk. lIi.N. uSkE PLAN.) beams having a space of two inches lietweenthem, and of such lieight as the magnitvide ofthe work might re(iuire. Above these and rest-ing on either the epistyle or the wall, were theroof tind)ers, distributed…

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