A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 177
IAN ARCHITECTUEE. Part I. by sand or huts, which still disfigure so many Egyptian temples. Itseffect, consequently, on travellers is always more striking. The Roman temple at Kalabsheh (Woodcuts Nos. 42 and 43),above the Cataract, is a fair specimen of these temples on a smallerscale. The section… … Bas-relief at Tel el Amarna. instance of the irregularity which distinguishes all the later Egyptianstyles from that of the rigid, proportion-loving pyramid builders ofMemphis. This irregularity of plan was nowhere carried to such an extentas in the Ptolemaic temple on the island of Philse (Woodcut…
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