A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 456
e enclosure, of the hearthor altar, have recently been discovered. Tlieirplan is closely similar to that of Greek housesof the Homeric age, where the hearth had asacred character. (See Persian Architecture.)Greece. The planning and construction ofGreek temples having been so fully discus.sedin… … Temple, Fig. 5: thai of Vesta at Of the temple built by Herod on the site ofSolomons temple, several ancient descriptionsexist, throwing some light upon it and muchupon its surroundings. The state of the evi-dence, however, is not such as to allow a planof the temple itself to be made with…
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