The Quarterly Review, Volume 179William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1894 |
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... temples and towns were built . This clay they mixed with chopped straw . some cases they merely dried the bricks in the sun , and such was the consistency of the clay that it is even now difficult to break these bricks . In other cases ...
... temples and towns were built . This clay they mixed with chopped straw . some cases they merely dried the bricks in the sun , and such was the consistency of the clay that it is even now difficult to break these bricks . In other cases ...
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... Temple of Babylon was , according to Arrian , destroyed by Xerxes , has left us a description of its tower . He tells us how in the middle of the temple enclosure was a solid tower , a stadium in length and breadth , on which was raised ...
... Temple of Babylon was , according to Arrian , destroyed by Xerxes , has left us a description of its tower . He tells us how in the middle of the temple enclosure was a solid tower , a stadium in length and breadth , on which was raised ...
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... Temple , and were generally put out of doors in the courtyards of the temples . Some of them were carved , and one of the very oldest known is described by M. de Sarsec as having a frieze of female figures on it , with out- stretched ...
... Temple , and were generally put out of doors in the courtyards of the temples . Some of them were carved , and one of the very oldest known is described by M. de Sarsec as having a frieze of female figures on it , with out- stretched ...
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... temple . Inter alia , a bronze inscribed sword was also found by M. de Sarsec . A still more remarkable and unexpected discovery is that of a silver vase , mounted on four feet of copper , decorated in pounced work with four lion ...
... temple . Inter alia , a bronze inscribed sword was also found by M. de Sarsec . A still more remarkable and unexpected discovery is that of a silver vase , mounted on four feet of copper , decorated in pounced work with four lion ...
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... temple of Eanna . En - Girsu is made the father of the gods Dun Shagana and Galalima . From this short summary of ... temples and shrines . Not only so , but they are exceedingly difficult to read , and we are continually met by ...
... temple of Eanna . En - Girsu is made the father of the gods Dun Shagana and Galalima . From this short summary of ... temples and shrines . Not only so , but they are exceedingly difficult to read , and we are continually met by ...
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