 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1835 - 752 Seiten
...this construction probably arose from their calculating the difficulty of repairing an injured vault, and the consequences attending the decay of a single block ; nor can any one doubt, from the great superincumbent weight applied to the haunches, that this style of building is... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1843 - 690 Seiten
...this construction probably arose from their calculating the difficulty of repairing an injured vault, and the consequences attending the decay of a single block. Nor can any one doubt, from the great superincumbent weight applied to the haunches, that this style of building is... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - 932 Seiten
...rounded off to form the appearance of a vault (fig. 1). The date of this building is about BC 1500, and consequently many years after the Egyptians had been acquainted with the art of vaulting (Wilkinson, Anc. Egyptians, ii. 321). Thus as the temple architecture of the Egyptians did not admit... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1847 - 528 Seiten
...construction probably arose from the difficulty of repairing an injured vault in the tunnelled rock, and the consequences attending the decay of a single block. Nor can any one in observing the great superincumbent weight applied to the haunches suppose that this style of building... | |
 | John Kitto - 1851 - 922 Seiten
...rounded off to form the appearance of a vault (fig. 1). The date of this building is about BC 1500, and consequently many years after the Egyptians had been acquainted with the art of vaulting (Wilkinson, .-Inc. Egyptian*, ii. 321). Thus as the temple architecture of the Egyptians did not admit... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 466 Seiten
...afterwards rounded off" to form the appearance of a vault. This building dates in the 15th century BC, consequently many years after the Egyptians had been...suppose, from the great superincumbent weight applied to CHAP. IX. TRUE AND FALSE ARCHES. 303 452. Fig. 1. Vaulted rooms and doorway of a crude brick pyramid... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 452 Seiten
...afterwards ounded off to form the appearance of a vault. This building dates in the loth century BC, consequently many years after the Egyptians had been...suppose, from the great superincumbent weight applied to 452. Fig. 1. Vaulted rooms and doorway of a crude brick pyramid at Thebes. 2. An imitation of an arch... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, John Gardner Wilkinson - 1873 - 546 Seiten
...construction probably arose from the difficulty of repairing an injured vault in the tunnelled rock, and the consequences attending the decay of a single block. Nor can any one, in observing the great superincumbent weight applied to the haunches, suppose that this etyliof building... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1874 - 464 Seiten
...afterwards ounded off to form the appearance of a vault. This building dates in the loth century BC,' consequently many years after the Egyptians had been...suppose, from the great superincumbent weight applied to TRUE AND FALSE AKCHES. 303 452. Fig. 1. Vaulted rooms and doorway of a crude brick pyramid at Thebes.... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1878 - 462 Seiten
...afterwards ounded off to form the appearance of a vault. This building dates in the loth century BC, consequently many .years after the Egyptians had been...suppose, from the great superincumbent weight applied tc TRUE AND FALSE ARCHES. 303 4BS. Fig. 1. Vaulted rooms and doorway of a crude brick pyramid at Thebes.... | |
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BC, consequently many years after the Egyptians had been acquainted with the art of vaulting ; and the reason of their preferring such a mode of construction probably arose from their calculating the great difficulty of repairing an injured arch in this... 
