A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. / From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

by James Fergusson

[207]. Rich, ‘Residence in Koordistan,’ ii. 251 et seq.

[208]. The plan made by Dr. Tristram’s party, which is all we yet have, was only a hurried sketch, and cannot be depended upon for minute details.

[209]. Flandin and Coste, vol. iv. pls. 214, 215.

[210]. Texier and Pullan. ‘Byzantine Architecture.’ 4to. 1864. Pl. iv. p. 40 et seq.

[211]. Ruskin, ‘Stones of Venice,’ vol. ii. pls. 3, 4, and 5.

[212]. ‘L’art Antique de la Perse,’ by Marcel Dieulafoy. Paris.

[213]. In the Museum at Pesth are a number of objects of Egyptian art, said to have been found in this quarter. Is it too much to assume the pre-existence of a Phœnician or Egyptian colony here before the Roman times?

[214]. As a matter of fact, 12th century would be more exact; nearly all the chief problems of pointed arch construction in intersecting vaulting having been worked out before the close of that century.

[215]. [The domical construction of the vaults of the two great cisterns erected by Constantine, the Binbirderek, or thousand-and-one columns, and the Yeri Batan Seraï, both in Constantinople, suggests that there already existed in the East a method of vaulting entirely different from that which obtained in Rome, and which may have been a traditional method handed down even from Assyrian times.—Ed.]

[216]. ‘Syrie Centrale: Architecture civile et religieuse du I^er au VII^me Siècle. Par le Comte Melchior de Vogüé.’