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 76
72 ARCHITECTURE rivers of the East from a very early time; according to Miss Lowthian Beil, the houses of the modern mnd-built villages of north Syria and northern Mesopotamia are covered with conical dome-like roofs like those shown on the Assyrian slab ; see also the remarks of Perrot and Chipiez… … sculptured slabs of alabaster^ a fine collection of which are housed at the British Museum. La,yard says that they v^ere painted in colours, and many traces of this are still to be seen on them. To Mesopotamia we probably owe the development of cities, great irrigation schemes, ordered gardens,…
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