It is fifteen feet high, composed of a single stone, and sculptured with imagery of the most elegant execution.
The door and its soffit, which is formed of a single stone, are ornamented with beautiful sculptures, which are not inferior to those of Baalbec.
The entrance to this area is through a beautiful gate, still entire; it is fourteen feet high and ten feet wide, the two posts, and the soffit are each formed of a single stone; the posts are elegantly sculptured.
Before the entrance was a portico of four Ionic columns, of which three are standing; they are about eighteen feet high, and of a single stone.
Defn: A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.
The apartment in which this image and some other sculptured stones are placed, rises perfectly square and plain, to the height of ten feet, and there occurs a richly carved cornice of four fillets, a single stone to each.
The throne was generally a single stone, decorated in front with a vase and profusion of flowers, filling the whole space in a natural easy manner.
In one or two localities, as at Kewick, a single stone is decorated with painting, while the rest of the surface is left plain.
Passing through the enclosure, you see a house surrounded with pillars, forty on each side, and with a roof of a single stone, adorned with mullions in relief, and various paintings.
Even the dark passages (before the entrances into the courts) are covered with slabs of a single stone, from side to side, without use of wood or other support, and these slabs are of extraordinary size.
The most marvellous thing is that the roof of each chamber consists of a single stone.
If from this point you look again into the courts, you see them twenty-seven in number in a row, supported by pillars of a single stone.
There is no saying how much wit, how much depth of thought, how much fancy, presence of mind, courage, and fixed resolution there may have gone to the placing of a single stone of it.
Finally, we have considered the capital hitherto entirely as an expansion of the bearing power of the shaft, supposing the shaft composed of a single stone.
Its streets are divided at right angles, so that the four gates may be seen from a single stone, set up in the middle of the Gymnasium.
In front of the Dromos is a colossal figure consisting of a single stone.
Here are two colossal figures near one another, each consisting of a single stone.
For Strabo says, that the Persian capital was entirely built of brick; there not being a single stone in the province: whereas the quarries of Shuster are very celebrated; and almost the whole of that town is built of stone.
At the entrance are three statues, formed from a single stoneby Memnon Syncite, the principal of which, representing the king, is seated, and is the largest in Egypt.
Never was there a city which received so many offerings in silver, gold and ivory, colossal statues and obelisks, each cut from a single stone.
Each of the upper courses is slightly set off from the one below it, so that in time they come so near together that the opening may be closed by a single stone, or rather, row of stones.
The apex of this pyramid, a pyramidion of a single stone, might be put in place and the work considered finished (Fig.
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