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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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self inupright pillars with beams laid acrossthem, hence called the trabeate system;genuine stone building is distinguishedby the employment of the arch with itsabutments. Most of the nations of an-tiquity, notably Egypt and Greece, al-though acquainted with the arch, ad-hered to the earlier and simpler trabeatetype of the pillar and beam; and thedetails of their architecture, althoughexecuted in stone, show evidences of theirwooden origin in the traditional woodenfeatures of triglyphs, metopes, etc., withmoi-tar or cement. After they hadlearned to build houses, they erectedtemples for their gods on a larger andmore splendid scale than their own dwell-ings. The Egyptians are the most an-cient nation known to us among whomarchitecture attain*^d the character of afine art. ARCHITECTUBE 232 ABCHITECTURE Egyptian.—The history of architec-ture may be said to begin with the con-struction of the Egyptian pyramids,3,000 years or more before the birth ofChrist, but not until 2570 B. c. do we
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CORINTHIAN ARCHITECTURE lind in Egypt a form of structure whichcontains the germ of a style practicedat a later age in Greece. Assyriayi. — Assyria comes next toEgypt for the age and importance of itsbuildings. The remains of some ofthese, which are chiefly palaces, are ofgreat splendor. Among the oldesthitherto excavated is the NorthwestPalace at Nimrod, built about 884 B. c. Persian.—Persia possesses, in the re-markable ruins of palaces at Persepolisand Susa, built in the 5th and 6th cen- turies B. c, remains which bear a closeresemblance to those of Assyria, theconstructional parts of these Persianbuildings being chiefly of marble, wherethose of the Assyrians were of wood,having been much better preserved. Indian.—Examples of almost everykind of construction, both in wood andstone, are to be found in the variousstyles of this wonderful country. Untilrecent years, it was believed that thecave temples of India were of a veryearly date, but it has now been ascer-tained that none

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