A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 179
nze door-knockers from Syria (No. 492). The bronze dowels(No. 493) were employed forfastening togel herstone sections, such as the drums of columns. They are often inthe form of truncated cones placed base to base, the thickest partbeing thus in the position where the strain was greatest (fig.… … Pig 202.—Roman Stamped Tile (No. 488).Ca. 1:3. 168 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. entrance of the Mausoleum, and were intended to drop half theirlength into the corresponding sockets in the lower sill of the entrance(Nos. 494-495). A series of bronze coverings (No. 496) for the pivots of doorsreminds us of…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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