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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 271

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e opérations of the quarryand the stone-yard, and who knows how stones are fitted and laid,photography has ail the importance of actual fact. This testimonydiscloses to us the remains of vvhat seems to be the platform {st^lo-baté), composed of colossal stones, on which was built the temple… … Fig. 28.) This bridge was the one destroyed iDy the Jews whenPompey was besieging the temple of Jérusalem, 54 years b. c* At * And without further delay [the party of Aristoljulus] occupied the temple, destroyed thebridge which connected it with the eity, and put themselves in position to défend…

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