Simpson, F. M. (Frederick Moore), 1855-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 126
er, there was no dangerof the walls giving, andbond was not really neces-sary, owing to the com-parative smallness of thebuildings, to the largesize of the blocks, and tothe fact that the wallswere without openings,except for a doorway ortwo.^ Columns are some-times monolithic, as in theearly… … Fig. 55. Viollet-le-duc (Librairies Imprimeries Reunies). The architrave, in small buildings, consists of single stones, > The probable origin of the orthoatatae, as tliis high bottom course is called, isthat in temples built chiefly of brick, the bottom course of the wall was a deep onein…
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