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 33
ARCHITECTURE 29 used horizontally, or up the angles of struc- tures. It is usually crossed by lines like binding- cords, and it must derive from the stiffening rails and angle pieces to which reeds were bound. This original source seems to be represented on the small relief of a hut on the slate… … of vertical reeding " with an XXX pattern beneath it. This may be traced back on the representation of buildings on objects of the first dynasties, and when we find on the earliest example known of the gorge that the vertical divisions do not suggest leaves, but are rounded like the " reeding," it…
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