Manual of oriental antiquities : including the architecture, sculpture, and industrial arts of Chaldæa, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnicia, and Carthage (1906)
Babelon, Ernest, 1854-1924 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 88
ilar to that of the large capital figured above, but presents some variations from it. There is a small hole into which the pillar was doubtless fastened by a peg or metal dowel. The Assyrian palace, like Arab houses, developed itself entirely in area, and not in height; there was rarely a second… … houses thus sur- EAR ig. 48.—Base of small column mounted by a (British Museum). colonnade, which supports a light, flat roof of wooden beams. At the present day, houses in Kurdistan are still built on the same lines, and show an identical arrangement in two stories; the lower without windows, the…
Art, Asian · Oriental antiquities
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