A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . s-ures 315 by 280 feet. Its greatgates are similar to those of the city, flankedon either side by colossal man-headed bullswhich undoubtedly once carried arches. Therewere discovered in this palace 31 courts and198 chambers. The apartments are long andnarrow, and the walls are from 5 to 15 feet inthickness. In the principal apartments thesewalls are faced with carved slabs of alabasteror limestone, representing in bas-relief the ex-ploits of the king, the figures having been origi-nally coloured. Above them
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . s-ures 315 by 280 feet. Its greatgates are similar to those of the city, flankedon either side by colossal man-headed bullswhich undoubtedly once carried arches. Therewere discovered in this palace 31 courts and198 chambers. The apartments are long andnarrow, and the walls are from 5 to 15 feet inthickness. In the principal apartments thesewalls are faced with carved slabs of alabasteror limestone, representing in bas-relief the ex-ploits of the king, the figures having been origi-nally coloured. Above them the walls, whose877 MESOPOTAMIA core is of crude brick, were faced with burntbrick covered with stucco and decorated withcolour. The minor apartments were similarlydecorated in colour throughout their wholeheight. In some cases the lower part of thewall decorated with enamelled bricks. Themethod by wliich these buildings were roofed isstill uncertain. Most English investigators andtheorists have sup])oscd wooden roofs carrying anuid concrete to form a terrace, or have followed. Mesopotamia: Restoration (Chipiez afterStrabo) of a Great Temple such as that called TheObservatory at Fergusson in supposing a series of open colon-nades with wooden pillars. But Place foundevidence in the excavations of the existence ofbarrel-vaulted roofs, which would give the mostrational explanation of the narrow apartmentsand the enormously thick walls. That theAssyrian builders were thoroughly fiimiliarwith the vault is clear from the city gates andthe vaulted drains lieneath the jialaces. Thebas-reliefs show clearly that some of the pal-aces had colonnades on the top of the roof-878 MESOPOTAMIA terraces, of wood onuimented andprotected by metal. The colunms ia someof these bas-reliefs show the rudimentary be-ginnings of Ionic and Corinthian capitals. Thecourts and platforms were paved with stone,sometimes carved into elaborate patterns,esjiecially in the d
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