The sacred city of the Ethiopians, being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 (1896)
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Müller, David Heinrich, 1846-1912, Garson, J. G. (John George) · London ; New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 220
188 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS and Lycia is suggested by the imitation beam ends and the sham windows. The tombs in Asia Minor are made to represent houses, with beams for their roofs carefully cut in stone, and most of them … support. {Vide ip. SS.) Another obelisk is of particular interest. Unfor- tunately, it has fallen on its face ; but, by crawling underneath and scraping away some soil, I was able to recover most of the pattern. This obelisk was only 27 ft. 10 in. in height, and 6 ft. 6 in. in width, and had on the…
