Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 252
v. x. CHA ». I Massive Stone Const ruction 233 Dolmen and the Temple of the Sphinx are examples ofmassive stone construction of the purest type, construction,as we might say, in monoliths, and such construction offersno suggestion or embryo form which might be worked outinto these dividing and… … Fig. 18.—Interior view of part of Temple of the Sphinx, tapering up towards the projecting capital, there is the plainarchitrave contrasting with the richly-membered friezebroken into triglyphs and metopes, there is the overhang-ing cornice profiled and enriched with its mutules anddrops, there are…
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