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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 223

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HE COLUMNS. A pillaredroom forming a part of the Tzapotec ruins ofMitla, in Oaxaca, Mexico. It contains a rowof six round stone columns tluough the middle,longitiulinally, each 9 feet 4 inches in circum-ference and about \2 feet high. (See Mexico,Architecture of, Part I., Precolumbian.)… … o s o DO oS a H 1-1 Q 2 357 358 HALO HALO. That form of tlie Gloiy which isreprisented around the lieail alone. (See Aureole; Ghiry.) HALVE; HALVE TOGETHER (v.). Tojoin, as two piece.! of wood, liy cutting awayeach one for part of its thickness, so tliat eachfits into the other. The faces forming…

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