. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . ubse-quently erected. In the buildings themselves unburntbricks were in a great measure employed; the walls con-sequently have a thickness of from 5 to 15 feet. Theywere reveted both on the inside and the out with ala-baster or limestone slabs, on which were engraved bas-reliefs and inscriptions in the cuneiform character (). In the exterior, freestone was also employed forthe lower parts of the coping. In the interior the walls 132 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE consisted, above the line of the reveting slabs, whichreached a heig
. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . ubse-quently erected. In the buildings themselves unburntbricks were in a great measure employed; the walls con-sequently have a thickness of from 5 to 15 feet. Theywere reveted both on the inside and the out with ala-baster or limestone slabs, on which were engraved bas-reliefs and inscriptions in the cuneiform character (). In the exterior, freestone was also employed forthe lower parts of the coping. In the interior the walls 132 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE consisted, above the line of the reveting slabs, whichreached a height of from 9 to 12 feet, of richly-paintedburnt or unburnt bricks, coated with stucco paintedwith various kinds of ornamentation. In some instancesthe entire walls are covered with painted stucco, with-out any facing of slabs. ■m gf- T --? ^ n ><■< I« ^^ Fig. 53. CUNEIFORM WRITING. Another kind of mural casing, especially in externalwalls, was effected by driving conical terra-cotta studsabout 31/2 inches long into the surface of the wall on. Fig. 54. WALL-MOSAIC FROM THE TERRACE RUINS AT WORKHA. which convex mouldings had been formed. The pointedends of these studs, which were of various colors, white,red, black, &c., were imbedded in clay which had beenworked up with chaff, and the broader bases of the coneswere made to form simple ornamental patterns of al-ternating colors on the exterior, as is shown in Fig. The excavations at Nineveh, although of greatimportance for the attainment of a knowledge of the de- EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 133 sign of Assyrian buildings and the condition of art,have afforded no definite information regarding the ar-chitectural appearance of their structures as a are able to determine anything definite about onebranch only, and that is the decorative. This v^^e areenabled to do by the many specimens which have been
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