History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 72
fter much discussion, conjectures that Darius andXerxes built Persepolis. These ruins were probably the summer palace of aPersian monarch. From the name Chilmenar, whichsignifies forty columns, it has been inferred that onlythat number belonged to the edifice; but Le Bruncounted the traces of two… … ^^^- ^ their height, than either Egyptian or Hindoo columns, being seventy-two feet high, and only seventeeninches in diameter at the base. The capitals (Fig. 8) are veryhigh, occupying nearly a fourthof the whole height of the column.The bases (Fig. 9) are a littlemore than four inches high,…
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