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 163
far as the yEgaean, and had something to do withone of the fairest creations of Greels. art. We thus catch side glimpses of the column, as it were, insmall buildings, in the porches before the principal doors ofpalaces, and in the open galleries with which some of the latterbuildings were crowned… … Fig. 41. —Temple on ihe bank of a river, Ivhor.^abad ; from Botta. We cannot say the same of the arch, which played a muchmore important role than it did in Egypt. There it was banished,as we have seen, to the secondary parts of an edifice. It hardlyentered into the composition of the nobler class…
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