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 59
EGYPTIAN BUILDING 55 of Bind adhere to and rest against the slanting course last done. There was no thought of wedges, the vault was thought of as a con- tinuous convex shell, although it was executed by assembling cakes of mud of a uniform size. The Romans developed this idea of the homo- geneous… … Egypt after the brick ^2. vault had been built for some two thousand years. Prof. Flinders Petrie describes a tomb de- pendent on a fine first-dynasty mastaba at Gizeh as vaulted, and Prof. Garstang has excavated a number of vaulted tombs at Reqiiquah which he assigns to the Third Dynasty. These…
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