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 418
a ruined structure of sun-dried brick. And weshould remember that Strabo tells us in a passage already quotedthat the height of the great temple at Babylon was equal to itsshorter diameter, an arrangement that may to some extent havebeen prescribed by custom. So tar then as its main features are… … Fig. 186.—The Ohs^ifa/ory restored. Plan. of the smallest kind was discovered by the French explorers.It is, however, quite possible that such chambers were contrivedin the upper stories, but we have no evidence of their existence.We may say the same of the resting-places mentioned byHerodotus in…
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