The book A Restoration of the Mausoleum At Halicarnassus was written by author J J John James Stevenson Here you can read free online of A Restoration of the Mausoleum At Halicarnassus book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Restoration of the Mausoleum At Halicarnassus a good or bad book?
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Allow- " ing spaces between the horses and at the edges, and also j for the pole, the width of the platform must be nearly, if j not exactly, eighteen feet six inches. ; It would therefore seem that the broader and narrower steps were designed to produce, from the base of the i pyramid, which is longer on the sides than the fronts, a | square platform of the size required for the quadriga. I We have now to determine the height of the roof. Height of \ consisting of a low pyramid with a meta ris...ing from it. Pyramid, etc | I think Pliny gives us this. It is probable that he would, ; since he gives the other heights. ' Above the pteron, ' he i 24 A RESTORATION OF says, ' a pyramid contracting itself in twenty-four steps " in metae cacumen " equalled or equals ' (I don't think it matters which reading we adopt) ' the lower height ' or ' lower part in height. ' The simple and apparently obvious meaning is that the pyramid above the pteron, which he had just said was twenty-five cubits high, equalled in height the part below the pteron : that the roof and the base of the sepulchre were equal in height.
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