SELIM I. INDEX. STIRLING CASTLE. 619 Seliui I., mosque of, ii, 539. tjeliuus, Doric teiuijles at, i, 244, 259. The great temple, 260. Plan, 260. Seliuklans, buildings of the, ii, 549. Semitic races, i, 57. Their unchange- ableness. 04. Their religion and its influence on their buildings for wor- ship, 65, 06. Their chiefs, kings, and prophets, 06. Tlieir worst faults: effects of their isolation, 66. High character of their literature, 67. Their palaces and tombs, 68. Their one aesthetic art, 68. Their pre-eminence as traders, 69. Extent of their scien- tific studies, Und. Sennacherib, 164. His palace, 177. Sens Cathedral, i, 549. William of Sens, ii, 155. Septimius Severus, triumphal arch of, i, 336. Sepulchre, see Holy Sepulchre. Serbistan, Sassaniau palace at, i, .383. Its probable date, oS3. Sergii, arch of the, i. 336. Sergius, SS., aiid Bacchus, domical church of, Constantinople, ii, 437. Plan and section, 442. Capital, 443. Seven churches, a favorite number, ii, 229. Seven Spheres, temple dedicated to the, i, 154. Seville, ii, 261. Cathedral, 270-273. Churches, 280. The Giralda. 319, 530. View, 531. The Alcazar, 531. Shah Abbas, Maidan or mosque and bazaar of, ii, 555. Shepherd Kings' invasion of Egypt, i, 88. Period of their rule, 90. Particu- lars regarding them, 112. Shiites, sect of, ii, 553. Sicily, Doric temples in, i, 244. Ele- ments influencing its mediteval archi- tecture, ii, 290. "Points of interest in its architectural history, 397. Its Sara- cenic and Norman epochs, 398. Style peculiar to each of its divisions, 399. Churches and Palaces, 399-404. The pointed ai-ch, for what purpose used, 405, 406. See 536 note. See also Mon- reale, Palermo. Siebenburgen, Gothic architecture in, i, 395 ii, 2. Siena' ii', 297, 317, 320, 333. Cathedral : Plan, 328. Facade, 329. Town-hall, 357. Silsilis, caves at, i, 126. Sillustani, Peru, tombs at, ii, 583. Sinau, Sultan Suleiman's architect, li, 545, 547. Sinzig, church at, ii, 28, 29, 55. Sion, cathedral tower of, ii, 11. Sion Church, (^ologne, ii, 29, 51. Sites of English cathedrals, ii, 171, 172. Smyrna, tumuli on the shore of, i. 221. Soest Church, transitional feature shown in, ii, 22. Soignies, chui'ch of St. Vincent at, i, 590. Soissons Cathedral, i, 550. Ruined church of St. John, 579. Solomon's Palace, time occupied in building, i, 209. Diagram plan, 210. House of the Cedars of Lebanon, 211. Materials, ornamentation, etc., ibid. Somnites, sect of, ii, 553, 554. Sta. Sophia, see Constantinople. Sorrento, cloisters at, ii, 387, Soueideh, five-aisled Byzantine church at, ii, 422. Souillac, cupola church at, i, 469. Souvigny, ribbed vaulting at, i, .572. SpaiiC ii, 202. Early ages of its archi- tecture, 242. Styles successively in- troduced; ethnological considerations; Gothic epoch, 244, 245. French and German influences, 245. Examples: Round-arched Gothic, 240. Early Spanish Gothic, 249. Middle pointed style, 200. Late Spanish Gothic, 274- 276. Moresco style, 276. Civil archi- tecture; monastic and municipal build- ings, 283. Castles, 286. Saracenic architecture, 522. Examples: Mosque at Cordoba, 523-527. Palace of Zalira, 527, 528. Buildings at Toledo, 529. Giralda and Alcazar, Seville, 530, 531. The Alhainbra, 532-535. Absence of tombs, 535. Spalatro, palace at, i, 304. S'ee Diocle- tian. Sparta, i, 233, 241. Speos Artemidos, Beni Hassan, grotto of, i, 126. Sphinx, the, i, 104. Evidence of its ex- istence anterior to the Pyramids, 105. Temple near, 104, 105. Spiegenthal, Heir, tumuli explored by, i, 221. His notion regarding them, 222. Spires, early examples of, i, 489. St. Stephen's, Caen, 514. Chartres, 540, 578, 579. St. Pierre, Caen, and other French examples, 577-579. Spire- growth in Germany, ii, 23. Salisbury, 165. Great Leighs, Essex, 182. See Belfries, Towers. Spires, Cathedral, i, 24, 514; ii, 17. Effects of fire, war, and restorations, 17. Dimensions, arrangements, de- tails, etc., 20. Stability in architecture, principle and illustrative instances of, i, 17. Staircases at Persepolis, i. 190-192. Steinbach, Erwin von, designs errone- ously ascribed to, ii, 67. Stephano Rotunda, S., Rome, circular chu:'ch, i, 432. Stephen's Chapel, S., Westminster, see Westminster. St. Stephen's. Stephen's, S., Caen, 513, see Caen. Stephen's, S.. Vienna, see Vienna. Sthambas of the Buddhists, ii, 315. Stirling Castle, ii, 225.
