Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 99
tA- OO o C3 In O shape from the prehistoric grave mounds. Although elabo-rately and ingeniously contrived for the concealment ofthe remains of the kings, and are stupendous monumentsof building skill, they are not examples of architecture inthe true sense of the word. Perhaps the earliest examples… … - -.-js-.^-i- Y\g. lOj.—Square Buildin- Egyptian (iorge (Figs. loi and 109). Horizontality isthe great feature of Egyptian architecture, which is typi-cally expressed by the illustration Fig. 102, an idealgeneralisation of an Egyptian temple. As hardly any, or no, rain falls in most parts of Egypt,
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