 ... the east, which were closed by a sort of portcullis or stone working up and down in a groove. The second story has two rooms and one entrance, closed in the same manner as the lower ones ; and above this rose either a dome or a pyramidical succession...  Excursions in the Mediterranean: Algiers and Tunis - Page 71by Sir Grenville Temple - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Wilhelm Gesenius - 1837 - 520 pages
...rooms or receptacles for the bodies and has two intrances, one of the north, the other on the east, which were closed by a sort of port-cullis or stone...lower ones; and above this rose either a dome or a pyramidical succession of steps crowned by a statue or some other ornament. On the eastern face are... | |
 | Tyre - 1852 - 208 pages
...rooms or receptacles for the bodies, and has two entrances, one at the north, the other at the east, which were closed by a sort of portcullis or stone...lower ones ; and above this rose either a dome or a pyramidical succession of steps, crowned by a statue or some other ornament. On the eastern face are... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 192 pages
...rooms or receptacles for the bodies, and has two entrances, one at the north, the other at the east, which were closed by a sort of portcullis or stone...lower ones; and above this rose either a dome or a pyramidical succession of steps, crowned by a statue or some other ornament. On the eastern face are... | |
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