Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 151
alaces. It was brought from the mountains ofUpper Mesopotamia, on the left bank of the Tigris, and,later, cedar and other woods were transported from theforests of Lebanon for the beams of the palaces andtemples. All kinds of metals, burnished and unburnished,were used as decorative accessories,… … Fig. 171.—One of the Gates of the Harumat, Dur-Saiginu. (M.) fragments of architecture, which archaeologists and archi-tects have used to enable them to restore some of thewonderful temples and palaces of ancient Assyria (Fig.172. The birds-eye view of the palace of Dur-Sarginu willgive a good idea…
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