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 245
ue. His archivolts andthe pendentives of his vaults always rest upon thick walls, and yetalmost every variety of the simple arch or tunnel-vault are to befound among the ruins of his buildings. Like all the other forms of Assyrian architecture the arch wasinvented in Chaldaea. The use of small… … Fig. 89.—Tomb-chamber at Mugheir ; fiom Taylor. more than one example of that false, corbelled or off-set vault,that we have already encountered in Egypt.^ The chamberfigured below is taken from the necropolis of Mugheir, formerly Ur of the Chaldees. It is built of crude brick bound withmud. The…
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