A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 513
d. Above them the walls, whose877 MESOPOTAMIA core is of crude brick, were faced with burntbrick covered with stucco and decorated withcolour. The minor apartments were similarlydecorated in colour throughout their wholeheight. In some cases the lower part of thewall wa.s decorated with enamelled… … Mesopotamia: Co.njeothral Restoration (Chipiez afterStrabo) of a Great Temple such as that called TheObservatory at Khors.vbad. Fergusson in supposing a series of open colon-nades with wooden pillars. But Place foundevidence in the excavations of the existence ofbarrel-vaulted roofs, which would…
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