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 360
hich class theyseem to belong in their general arrange-ments, though their details are borrowedfrom Roman architecture. This, how-ever, is not the case with the temples atBaalbec, which taken together and withtheir accompaniments, form the mostmagnificent temple group now left to usof their class… … Kan of Small Temple atBaalbac. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. if completed (which, however, probably it never was), would have been about 160 ft. by 290, and therefore, as a Corinthian temple, only inferior to that of Jupiter Olympius at Athens. Only nine of its colossal columns are now standing, but the…
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