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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 41

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themore familiar classic form, and then in the Egyptian form. 8 HISTORY OF ARCHHECTURE. that of Chephren, or Khafra ; and the third, that of Myceri-nus, or Menkhara. Other smaller ones stand at the feet ofthese giants. The base of the Great Pyramid measures 764 feet ona side ; its height is 482… … FIG. I.—SECTION OF GREAT IVRAMID. a. Kings Chamber; b. Queens Chamber; c. Chamber cut in Rock. nally, like its two neighbors, with a coating of polishedstone, supposed by some to have been disposed in bands ofdifferent colored granites, but of which it was long agodespoiled. It contained three…

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