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The habitations of man in all ages (1876)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 102

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73 THE HABITATIONS OF MAN. When these have reached the level C, they place on the large horizontal bundle a sort of trellis-work of reeds pre- pared beforehand, as shown in figure 26, and which is com- posed of a double row of reeds, between which other reeds placed very close are kept in a… … Structure with Reeds. — Fig. 26- by means of plaited bonds of byblos. This trellis-work is kept vertical by other bonds which fasten the lower parts of the stalks of the reeds that form the trellis- work to the inside of the large horizontal roll above as at G. Then the clay-workers continue their…

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