Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 159
f their dwellings could bekept far lower than that of the torrid atmosphere without.^ Thuswe find in the Ninevite palaces outer walls of from fifteen tofive-and-twenty feet in thickness. It would have been verydifficult to contrive windows through such masses as that, andthey would when made have… … Fig. 38.—A Fortress. From Lajard. instance of its use, either among Assyrian or Chaldsean remains,or in the representations of them in the bas-reliefs. Here andthere we find openings in the upper stories of towers, but they areloop-holes rather than windows (Fig. 38).^ According to the personal…
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