Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 31
ORIGINS OF ARCHITECTURE 27 capital " was not a separate member but only a projection on the post, probably to prevent the horizontal reed bundles from slipping. These early indications of the forms of the first Egyptian pillars have been very fully studied by Foucart, who shows that the later stone… … it was usual to construct rich furniture with legs like those of bulls, of carved ivory, a fashion which has persisted ever since. A class of archaic rock-hewn tombs at Gizeh and Sakkara had their ceilings cut " to resemble small palm trunks," that is, I suppose, into a series of half-rounds like a…
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