A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 615
tand air only through doorways of greater orsmaller dimensions, the sitting rooms of differ-ent kinds having high and wide o]5enings, withlittle but curtains and low screens to separatethem from the court or garden. The sleepingrooms (see Cubiculum ; House) were very small,and had besides the door… … Window, Fig. 1: In the Palace at Chaqqa obShakka; ;iD Century a.d. and left open in warm weather ; but nowhereis a window of the usual modern sort known toexist. The Romans, moreover, >ised glass forwindows Ijut rarely, though it is known thatthey luiilcr.^tiind the glazing of sash. WINDOW, PART…
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