Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 62
less gives us the origin of the stone Persepolitan capitals. Tliis forkedform has a double advantage ; it not only supports tlie linlel or girth Fig. 8. … along the face of the buihliug. but it allows the insertion, betweentlie forks and under the girth, of a horizontal beam perpendicular to 34 DISCOURSES OX AECHITECTUEE. the latter, to support the joists of tlie floor, which is thus includedin the tliickness of tlie lintel or girth on the face of…
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