 | Charles Thomas Newton - Levant - 1865 - 352 pages
...having destroyed the little masonry remaining above ground, proceeded to dig lower in quest of more. In a short time they perceived that the deeper they...with their bases, capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornice engraved and sculptured in relief. The space between the columns was lined with slabs and bands... | |
 | Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell - Sculpture - 1883 - 824 pages
...space, they saw an opening, as into a cellar. "Taking a candle, they let themselves down through the opening, and found that it led into a fine, large, square apartment, ornamented all around with columns of marble, with their bases, capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornice engraved... | |
 | Scotland - 1896 - 596 pages
...afternoon they saw an opening as into a cellar. Taking a " candle, they let themselves down through the opening, and found that it led " into a fine large...with their bases, capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornice engraved "and sculptured in high relief." Penetrating further, they came upon the sepulchre... | |
 | Percy Gardner - Funeral rites and ceremonies - 1896 - 352 pages
...et diverses manieres d'ensevelir, &c., quoted by Newton in his History of Discoveries, vol. ip 76. it led into a fine large square apartment, ornamented...bases, capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornices, carved and sculptured in mezzo rilievo. The space between the columns was lined with slabs and bands... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Greece - 1903 - 848 pages
...• i " After four or five days these knight-builders having laid bare a great space, one afternoon saw an opening as into a cellar. Taking a candle,...capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornices, engraved with sculptures in half-relief. Having at first admired these works, and entertained their fancy with... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Greece - 1903 - 888 pages
...— ' ' After four or five days these knight-builders having laid bare a great space, one afternoon saw an opening as into a cellar. Taking a candle,...fine large square apartment, ornamented all round wlth columns of marble, with their bases, capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornices, engraved with... | |
 | Kenneth Meyer Setton - Crusades - 1977 - 466 pages
...strengthen the castle, a French knight, de la Tourette, and some others found the main tomb chamber, "a fine large square apartment, ornamented all round...with their bases, capitals, architrave, frieze and cornice engraved and sculptured in half relief," they for a while "entertained their fancy with the... | |
 | Glasgow Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1896 - 720 pages
...afternoon they saw an opening as into a cellar. Taking a * " candle, they let themselves down through the opening, and found that it led " into a fine large...with their bases, capitals, architrave, frieze, and cornice engraved " and sculptured in high relief." Penetrating further, they came upon the sepulchre... | |
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After four or five days, having laid bare a great space one afternoon, they saw an opening as into a cellar. Taking a candle, they let themselves down through this opening, and found that it led into a fine large square apartment, ornamented all round... 