A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 427
ch Renan describes as mono-lithism, viz., the employment of immenseblocks of masonry, essentially Phcenician, notonly in its origin, but in its continuance through- SYRIA the great labour involved iu detaching them, asit were, from the main block. In Roman work,capitals, shafts, and bases, and in… … SyHIA, .XuCHITliCTCRK OF: THE SO-CALLED PUETOlilUM AT MrS.MIliEH, JUULl .\l!Ol T 170 A.D. out the early periods. From this characteristicthe native builders seem never to have emanci-pated themselves, and throughout the Jewish,the Roman, and the early Christian periods,they emphiyed in their…
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