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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 37

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Plate I.—Examples of Egyptian capitals. COLUMNS, CAPITALS, ROCK-CUT TOMBS. 15 seventy degrees on the outside, but remained verticalon the inside. Columns were generally round andtapered toward the top, having shafts sculptured withlotus leaves or fashioned in the form of bundles of rodsbound…

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