e retaining wall of the Rostra,where the blocks are not always square nor the joints vertical,cannot he called polygonal. In the other buildings mentioned wesee a tendency towards (a) a regular disposition of the blocks incourses of headers and stretchers , {b) the employment of blocksof standard… … Fig. 9. Polygonal wall of Signia. the blocks are left rough, except for drafted edges, the beds andjoints are worked away so as to touch only along the edge{anathyrosis). Finally, in the later parts of the Servian wall we find thestandard block, whose end is a square of two Roman feet and…
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