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acropolis ancient Antiphellos Apollo appears architecture artistic Asia Assyrian Athens beams blocks bricks building built calyx capital carved ceiling cella century B.C. Chaldæan chambers chief colored colossal columns construction cornice Corsabad court Coyundjic cubits decoration Doric dwellings dynasty echinos Egypt Egyptian entablature entirely entrance epistyle erected exterior figures floral column frieze front gable Gizeh Greece Greek hall head height Hellenic Herodotos horizontal hypostyle important inclined intercolumniations interior Ionic king known later lintel lion Lycia Lysippos masonry ment Mesopotamia metopes Miletos monuments Mykenæ natural Nile Nimrud Nineveh Olympia original ornament painting Parthenon Pausanias peculiar peripteral peripteros Persepolis Persian Pheidias Phoenician piers portal portico primitive probably projecting Propylæa pteroma pyramid reliefs remains representations represented revetment Rock-cut Tomb Roman roof ruins sculpture Selinous shaft side similar so-called space statues stone stood structure style Temple terrace Tholos tion triglyphs tumulus upper walls Warka Zeus