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8 A History of Art in Chald.ea and Assyria. excess of their horizontal over their vertical development, havehad but little effect. Such an arrangement would appear superfluous in the case ofthose towers in the shape of stepped pyramids, whose summitscould be carried above the plain to any fanciful… … Fir.. 34.—-Temple ; from a Kouymidjik bas-relief. Rawliiison, vol. i. p. 314. mass between the wet and often shifting soil and the building, andto afford a base which by its size and solidity should protect thegreat accumulation of material that was to be placed upon it frominjury through any…
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