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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria (1884)

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 272

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d beone whole brick flanked on either side by a half brick. AnAssyrian wall or building consists of the infinite repetition of thissino-le figure. Each whole brick lies upon the joint between 1 See, for instance, in Art in Ancient Egypt, \o\. i. figs. 123, 124, 201, and invol. ii. pp. 55-64. and… … Fig. 102.—View of an angle of the oliscivalory at Khorsabad ; compiled from Place. K K Secondary Forms. !5i two others, and every perpendicular wall, including- parapet orbattlement, is raised upon this system. Far from being modified by the crenelations, this bond regulatestheir form, dimensions,…

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