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Views and plans of ancient temples and monuments.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Human types, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Great Mosque of Damascus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Damascus, Mosques, Plans and drawings, Syria, Umayyad Mosque / Great Mosque of Damascus ( Ğām' Banī 'Umayya al-Kabīr)

Plan of the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbeck (an. Heliopolis).

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baalbek / anc. Heliopolis, Lebanon, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Temple of Bacchus (Baalbek)

View, section and plan of the Temple of Aphrodite at Baalbeck (anc. Heliopolis).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baalbek / anc. Heliopolis, Lebanon, Plans and drawings, Temple of Aphrodite (Baalbek)

Views and plans of the aqueducts of Sour (Tyre). Map of Sour (Tyre) showing the place of the aqueducts.

Tags: Aqueduct of Tyre, Architecture and built environment, Lebanon, Maps, Plans and drawings, Sour / anc. Tyre

Map of Caesarea Maritima. (B) Mount Tabor. (Ι) The funerary monuments known as "Tombs of the Kings" in Jerusalem. Tomb of Josaphat in Kidron Valley in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Caesarea Maritima / Caesarea in Palaestina, Funerary monuments, Israel, Jerusalem, Kidron Valley (Jerusalem), Mount Tabor, Palestine, Plans and drawings, Tomb of Josaphat (Jerusalem), Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem)

Views and floor plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. View and floor plan of the Grotto and the Church of the Nativity.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem), Churches, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Temple of Apollo in Thymbra, ancient city close to Troy, on the outskirts of Hisarlik.

Tags: Ancient temples, Apollo Thymbraios, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Thymbra), Thymbra, Troad, Turkey

Furnaces for making Sal-Armoniac. Plans of Ovens to hatch chickens. A Plan of a Coptic Church and Convent.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Coptic monasteries, Egypt, Furnace, Hatcheries, Plans and drawings

View, section plan and floor plan of the convent and the church of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Egypt, Mount Sinai, Plans and drawings, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai)

Map of Philae (Amilkia) island and floor plan of the Temple of Isis.

Tags: Amilkia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Isis, Philae, Plans and drawings

Section plan, view, and floor plan of ancient building in Aswan. Floor plan of a temple on Elephantine island. Statue of Pharaoh. Rock with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Elephantine island, Plans and drawings

View and plan of carved temples in Gebel el-Silsila in Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Coats of arms – Emblems, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Gebel el-Silsila, Plans and drawings, Temples of Gebel-el-Silsila

Plan of the temple of Edfu. View and section plan of the great pylon of the temple.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Edfu / anc. Apollonopolis Magna, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Plans and drawings, Temple of Horus (Edfu)

Floor plans of temples in Esna (anc. Latopolis). View of temple in Esna.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Esna / anc. Latopolis, Plans and drawings, Temple of Esna

Plan of an Egyptian temple, perhaps of the Temple of Menthu in Armant (anc. Hermonthis). Floor plan of another ancient building in the same area.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Armant / anc. Hermonthis, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Plans and drawings, Temple of Menthu in Hermonthis (Armant), Thebes / Luxor

Plan of Ramesseum, the memorial temple of Ramesses II, in Luxor (anc. Thebes).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Plans and drawings, Ramesseum / Memorial temple of Ramesses II, Thebes / Luxor

Plans of carved funerary monuments in Luxor (anc. Thebes).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Funerary monuments, Plans and drawings, Thebes / Luxor

View of ancient Thebes in Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Funerary monuments, Plans and drawings, Thebes / Luxor, Valley of the Kings (Egypt)

Plan and section of the Precinct of Amun-Re in Luxor (anc. Thebes). Views of pylon of the same precinct.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Karnak, Plans and drawings, Thebes / Luxor

Plans of temples at Denderah in Egypt.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Denderah / anc. Tendyra, Egypt, Plans and drawings

View and plan of column order from temple in El Ashmunein. View and plan of portico in Sheikh Ibada (anc. Antinopolis).

Tags: Antinopolis / Ansena / mod. Sheikh Ibada, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, El Ashmunein / anc. Hermopolis Magna, Plans and drawings

Plans and views of the Faiyum region. The lake Moeris.

Tags: Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Obelisks, Plans and drawings, Pyramids

Catacombs of Saqqara: A. Plan of human burials. B. Plan of the Ibis Catacomb (bird burials). C. View of a wall from the Catacombs of Apis. Two pyramids from Saqqara.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Catacombs, Catacombs of Saqqara, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Ibis Catacomb (Saqqara), Plans and drawings, Pyramids of Saqqara, Saqqara

Views and section plans of the Pyramids of Dahshour.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Dahshour, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Plans and drawings, Pyramids, Pyramids of Dahshur

Map of the Pyramids of Saqqara and Dahshour.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Dahshour, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Plans and drawings, Pyramids, Pyramids of Dahshur, Pyramids of Saqqara, Saqqara

View of the Sphinx. Section plans of the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as Pyramid of Cheops.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Giza necropolis, Human types, Plans and drawings, Pyramid of Cheops (Giza), Pyramids, Pyramids of Giza

View of the Pyramids at Giza. Plan and section of the hallway of the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as Pyramid of Cheops.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Giza necropolis, Plans and drawings, Pyramids, Pyramids of Giza

View, sections, and plans of Joseph's Well (Bir Yusuf) at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Castles and fortresses, Egypt, Joseph's Well / Bir Yusuf (Cairo), Plans and drawings, Saladin Citadel of Cairo (Qalaʿat Salāḥ ad-Dīn), Wells

Plan and view of the building called Hall of Joseph at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Castles and fortresses, Egypt, Hall of Joseph (Cairo), Plans and drawings, Saladin Citadel of Cairo (Qalaʿat Salāḥ ad-Dīn)

1.View of door in Cairo (B). 2. and 3. View and plan of Bab al-Nasr Gate in Cairo (Α).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bab al-Nasr Gate (Cairo), Cairo, Egypt, Plans and drawings

View and plan of the Nilometer (device measuring the water levels of the Nile river) on the island Rawda in Cairo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Egypt, Nilometer (Cairo), Plans and drawings

View and plan of Egyptian sarcophagus from Cairo. Floor plan of the Amr ibn al-'As Mosque in Cairo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, Monastery of Voulcano (Messenia), Mosques, Plans and drawings, Sarcophagi

View and bottom view of the reservoir of the aqueduct of Cairo.

Tags: Aqueduct of Cairo, Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, Plans and drawings

Plans of catacombs in Alexandria together with floor plan of fortress in Nicopolis, and map of the isle Latonia, close to Rosetta.

Tags: Alexandria, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castles and fortresses, Catacombs, Egypt, Funerary monuments, Latonia island (Alexandria), Nicopolis (Egypt), Plans and drawings, Rashid / anc. Rosetta, Roman monuments

Map of Athens with plans of the Acropolis monuments and other buildings.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Maps, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

The twenty second metope of the south side of Parthenon. Drawing by J. Carrey (1674).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Drawing of an ancient epistyle, built today in the church of Agios Geogrios, one of the monasteries of Ioulis, Kea.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Church of Hagios Georgios (Kea), Churches, Cyclades, Greece, Ioulis (Kea), Kea, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Temple of Apollo in Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Kea, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Kea)

Plans and section plans of rock-carved mausoleums in Palaiopolis, Cythera.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cythera, Funerary monuments, Greece, Ionian islands, Mausoleums, Palaiopolis (Cythera), Plans and drawings

Comparison of the length of ancient stadiums, based upon various measuring methods.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Plans and drawings, Stadiums

Plan of Erechtheion. View of the east side of the Temple.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Doric order, Greece, Plans and drawings, Propylaea of the Acropolis

The Parthenon: 1. Plan of the temple. 2. West side of the temple. On the pediment the battle of Athena with Poseidon. On the metopes the Centauromachy. In fact, the Centauromachy is on the south side of the temple and not in the west, as the author suggests.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Pediments of the Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu: Fig. 1: Transverse section of the temple as it now remains. Fig. 2: Section from east to west. Fig. 3: Section and plan of a Doric capital found in a ruined church within the French lines. It has very much the character of the capital of the pseudodipteral and hexastyle temples at Paestum.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu: Fig. 1: Section of the capital, half the full size, Fig. 2: Section fo the moulding of the corona, half the full size. Fig, 3: Section of the internal moulding of the architrave, half the full size. Fig. 4 and 5: Elevation and section of an ornament supposed to have been in the frieze of the ambulatory, full size. Fig. 6: Section of the ornament in the true position.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu. Details of the Order. Fig. 1: Elevation of the capital of the column and a section of the entablature restored from existing fragments, with the exception of the frieze. Fig. 2: Plan of the capital. Fig. 3: Plan of the fluting of the upper diameter, full size. Fig. 4: Shews the construction of the tympanum. Fig. 5: Shews the thickness of the tympanum stones. Fig. 6: Section of the end on one of the terra cotta tiles with which the roof was covered, full size.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu: Elevation of the front towards the sea.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Plan of the Temple of Kardaki, Corfu. A denotes two wells.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

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