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SECONDARY FORMS. two others, and every perpendicular wall, including parapet or battlement, is raised upon this system. Far from being modified by the crenelations, this bond regulates their form, dimensions, and distribution. The crenelations of the palace walls consist of two rectangular masses, of unequal size, placed one upon the other. The lower is two bricks'-length, or C w !B 20 25 M FIG. 103. .Lateral f; ^ade c f the palace at Fiiouz-Abad ; from Flandin and Coste. about thirty-two inches, wide, and the thickness of three bricks, or about fourteen inches, high. The upper mass equals the lower in height, while its width is the length of a single brick, or sixteen inches. The total height of the battlement, between twenty-eight and twenty-nine inches, is thus divided into two masses, one of FIG. 104 Battlements from an Assyrian palace. which is twice the size of the other (see Fig. 104). The battle- ments are all the same, and between each pair is a void which is nothing but the space a battlement upside down would occupy. Fill this space with the necessary bricks, and a section of wall would be restored identical in bond with that below the battle- ments, with the one exception that the highest block of the