A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 559
Fid. 24 tPLAN). tomb, the vault being the roof, may be termeda vault with ])lane surfaces. The Cloaca Max-ima at Rome is a well-known example, of stone,in three riiitrs. jmibably uf the fourth century … Fig. 27. Fig. 26. B.C. In the above cases the vault was merely amechanical tle^ice for covering spaces with ma-terials of small size instead of slabs of stone.It was used in places where it could not be seen.
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