Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 264
having been found. The rock-cut tombs of Lycia, in Asia Minor, afford to us afurther proof of timber construction which may have beenin use in the Early Greek period in Europe, and thesetombs of Lycia tend to throw a side light on the probableforms of Greek construction that existed between the… … Fig. 298.—Lycian Rock-built Tomb at Pinara. (P. & C.) earlier Lycian tombs are of a great antiquity, and thesame form of tomb has been used in Lycia down to periodswhen Greece was far advanced in art (Figs. 298 and 299). 244 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. The Lycians formed a connecting link witli the…
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