 exterior form of the main body of the tomb is a square with the corners cut off, or an octagon with four long and four short faces, and each of the short faces forms one side of the four octagonal corner towers. The dome is built entirely of white marble,...  The new guide to Delhi - Seite 105von Alfred Frederick P. Harcourt - 1873 - 143 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1865 - 1024 Seiten
...The exterior form of the main body of the tomb is a squarv with the corners cut off, or an oefagon with four long and four short faces, and each of the...attached to the four angles of the main building. It is true that these towers are very stout and massive, but they form an important innovation in the... | |
 | Archaeological Survey of India - 1871 - 570 Seiten
...Mogul dynasty. The exterior form of the main body of the tomb is a square with the corners cut off, on an octagon with four long and four short faces, and...white marble, the rest of the building being of red stand-stone, with inlaid ornaments of white marble. In this tomb we first see towers attached to the... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1871 - 578 Seiten
...Mogul dynasty. The exterior form of the main body of the tomb is a square with the corners cut off, on an octagon with four long and four short faces, and...white marble, the rest of the building being of red stand-stone, with inlaid ornaments of white marble. In this tomb we first see towers attached to the... | |
 | J. Duguid - 1874 - 320 Seiten
...following description of it is from the " Journal of the Archa'ological Society of Delhi," vi, 74 : — " The exterior form of the main body of the tomb is...attached to the four angles of the main building, forming an important innovation in the Mohammedan architecture of North India, which was gradually... | |
 | 1874 - 328 Seiten
...following description of it is from the " Journal of the Archaeological Society of Delhi," vi, 74 : — " The exterior form of the main body of the tomb is...attached to the four angles of the main building, forming an important innovation in the Mohammedan architecture of North India, which was gradually... | |
 | Syria - 1875 - 632 Seiten
...Emperor and his two sons, it gave shelter to some seven or eight thousand of their followers. The dome is entirely of white marble, the rest of the building...sandstone, with inlaid ornaments of white marble. The whole forty square miles are thickly covered with tombs and ruins of tombs, forts, and palaces,... | |
 | Enoch Mather Marvin - 1878 - 664 Seiten
...world-renowned Taj Mahal, at Agra, is the same, with differences of detail. In the language of Cunningham : " The exterior form of the main body of the tomb is...each of the short faces forms one side of the four octagonal-corner towers. The dome is built entirely of white marble, the rest of the building being... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1882 - 142 Seiten
...Cunningham thus describes the building: — "The exterior form . . . is a square with the corners cut off on an octagon with four long and four short faces, and...forms one side of the four octagonal corner towers. In this tomb we first see towers attached to the four angles of the main building . . . they form an... | |
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