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 199
and that is, the bas-reliefs on thewalls of the Assyrian palaces. They drew architecture, however, sobadly, that it is necessary to be very guarded in considering suchrepresentations as more than suggestions ; but the annexed woodcut(No. 54) does seem to represent a four-storeyed temple, placed on… … Kepresentatiou of a Temple. (From a Bas-relief from Koyunjik.) object of the erection. Its colouring, too, is gone; but the certainremains of symbolical colours at Borsippa and Khorsabad confirm socompletely the Greek accounts of the seven-coloured walls of Ecbatanathat with the other indications…
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