Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 486
sible by a vaultedpassage, which leads to a triplet gateway, with deep mouldings,which opens into the first court. The great court is 440 feet long by 370 feet wide, and hason each of its sides niches and columns, which, even in theirruins, are magnificent. The two sides exactly correspond with… … THE GREAT TEMPLE. 471 entering through the portico, and passing into the great court,has before him on the opposite side (the west) of the court,the Great Temple originally dedicated to Baal. This was a mag-nificent peristyle measuring 290 feet by 160 feet, with nineteenhuge columns on each side,…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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