Manual of Oriental Antiquities Including the Architecture Sculpture And Indus
Manual of Oriental Antiquities Including the Architecture Sculpture And Indus
Babelon, Ernest, 1854-1924
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. , , . . of wall at baked or crude, and stone is scarcely tefterpta b ce? em P lo y ed in them except for the lining and paving of a few rooms. In that case great slabs of limestone or gypsum are set up- right as a plinth against the lower part of the wall, to preserve it from corrosion ; they are adjusted end 54 ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES. to end by the edge, and it was sufficient, in order to fix them, to pour between their posterior surface and the wall mortar which often only imperfectly adhered... : the outer and only visible surface of these slabs was decorated with bas-reliefs which served for the adornment of the halls. As for the walls themselves, they were straight and perpendicular in contrast to those of the Egyptian buildings, which, seen from without, seem to lean inwards, and give to the whole building the appearance of a truncated pyramid. The Assyrian walls rise vertically, even when they enclose vaulted chambers, or when they form part of staged pyramids; each stage forms a perpendicular terrace, not a sloping one.
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