Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 322
between two of the steps, but it is far inferior in solidity to thetrapezoidal section. The prisms had no alliance one with another ;they had to depend for their security entirely upon their adherenceto the faces of the graded core, so that they could easily be carriedoff, or become dislocated from… … Fig. 155.—The casing of the pyramids ; drawn in perspective from the elevation of Perring. The casing of the Second Pyramid, moreover, does not seem tohave been carried out on the same principle from top to bottom. * B.^DEKER, Egypt, part i. p. 338 (ed. of 1S78). Herodotus (ii. 127) says thatthe…
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