The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, المجلد 8

الغلاف الأمامي
Ginn, 1893
 

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الصفحة 387 - Capitolii fastigium illud et ceterarum aedium non venustas, sed nécessitas ipsa fabricata est. Nam cum esset habita ratio, quemadmodum ex utraque tecti parte aqua delaberetur, utilitatem templi fastigii dignitas consecuta est, ut, etiamsi in cáelo Capitolium statueretur, ubi imber esse non posset, nullam sine fastigio dignitatem habiturum fuisse videatur.
الصفحة 378 - Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
الصفحة 424 - To sum up : the prytaneum, a round building with a pointed, umbrella-shaped roof, was originally the house of the king, chief, or headman (prytanis) of an independent village or town, and it contained a fire which was kept constantly burning. It is only necessary to add that when a colony was sent out, the fire for the chief's house (prytaneum) in the new village was taken from that in the chief's house of the old...
الصفحة 221 - These include fragments of archaic pottery, terracotta heads, figures, and masks, pins and clasps of bronze, a bronze cock, several scarabs, one of them threaded...
الصفحة 202 - XVIII) in which the surface is so well preserved, the careful finish and elaboration of the surface in this piece of architectural sculpture makes me consider it possible that this Hera stood in the pediment under which it was found, and represented the goddess standing immediately beside the central figure or figures in the scene of the departure of Agamemnon and the Homeric heroes for Troy.
الصفحة 249 - EXCURSIONS IN GREECE TO RECENTLY EXPLORED SITES OF CLASSICAL INTEREST (Mycenae, Tiryns, Dodona, Delos, Athens, Olympia, Eleusis, Epidauros, Tanagra). A Popular Account of the Results of Recent Excavations for Students and Travellers.
الصفحة 254 - Among the nmny tools used by the pyramidbuilders were both solid and tubular drills and straight and circular saws. The drills, like those of to-day, were set with jewels (probably corundum, as the diamond was very scarce), and even lathe tools had such cutting edges. So remarkable was the quality of the tubular drills and the skill of the workmen that the cutting marks in hard granite give no indication of wear of the tool, while a cut of a-tetith of an inch was made in the hardest rock at each...

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