Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 145
must refer to thework of de Vogue.1 In the basilicas, therefore, East and West,— and in Syria wherever wood was to he had, — alow gable roofsurmounted the nave and transept, and a shed roof of the sameangle covered the aisles. The commonest covering for the roofwas, of course, terra-cotta tiles. At… … Fig. 34. — Longitudinal section of basilica in Kuweha, Syria. rius I. had the roof of S. Peters covered with bronze tiles.2The bronze tiles of the Constantinian church of the Apostles atConstantinople were gilt, so that in the sunlight they nearlyblinded the beholder.3 It is probable that in the…
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