A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 615
towns ofSyria have the stone-built edifices kept theirshape and ordonnance. Figure 1 sliows a veryearly Greco-Roman window, probably of thethird century, and we need not doubt that suchopenings as this were somewhat common inRoman country houses. This window is in thesecond story, the larger… … iiiiiifiiiiiiiims^ Window, Fig. 2: Private House at Khurbet-Hass. the spanning of the opening by a lintel, and thesupporting of that lintel liy uprights, as well asthe apparent serving of pilasters for the samepurpose, are the essential characteristics. Thewindow is here what it became so commonly…
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