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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 50

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ven gems ; while tri-remes, with brazen prowsof green and gold,throngedthe inlets of the Red Sea,bearing rare woods, gems,perfumes, porcelains, andspices from the sovereignsof the East, with silks,wrought metal, and filigreefrom far-away fountain-filled Damascus. Besides all these, therevenues of… … Fig. 13.—Temple at Philse. 28 EGYPT A XI) NUBIA. lars in gold per year. Hence the material require-ment was not wanting for architecture, and templesbegan to rear their sculptured beauty on every hand. Under the Ptolemaic rule temples differed quitematerially from the palaces of worship of the…

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