The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 286
among the monuments of theperiod. Its circumference, according to Amrecy,measured nearly a Roman mile or two hundred andfifteen toises in length by one hundred and seventy-two in breadth. These dimensions were acceptedfor a long time as authentic, but the discovery of THE HOUSE OF AL ABBAS. 263 an… … Fig. 102.—View of the tomb at Sultaneiah of to-day, i. e., covering fifty thousand square feet,while the description of its appearance bespeaks littlesubsequent alteration. Even more propitious to art than the Omiaddynasty were the caliphs of the Persian house ofAl Abbas. The capital, which had…
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