Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 254
ve it—yet they never developed a corniceout of their stonework, and might have gone on for everrearing smooth, or buttressed walls without any such crowningfeature, had it not been for the hints they derived from farhumbler structures. If the reader will turn back to page32 he will see a sketchof… … Fig. 19.—Primitive hut of mud and timberframing. wood, or of mud with timber framings, like the primitivestructure in Fig. 19, could be made to serve as a breast-work round the flat roof of stamped earth. Now almostall the monumental buildings of Egypt are crownedabove with a stone cornice which…
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