A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 434
lstand erect. Second, the Via Recta at Damas-cus, 1550 feet long, and running tiirough thetown from gate to gate; excepting the twogateways, the last vestiges above groimd of thiswere destroyed at the time of the ma.ssacre of18G0, when the Christian quarter was destroyed.Tiiird, that of Gerasa,… … a 725 726 SYRIA Ionic capitals, the rcnKiimler being Corinthian.A vaulted tetrapyluu existed iiere. Amman,Kunavvat, Basra in the Houran (with two tetra-pylons), Gadara, Pella, Apamea, and othertowns are referred to by travellers. The mostancient colonnaded street of which remains ex-ist is that…
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