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Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)

Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 21

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des, consolidated this kind of construction. Italian.—In Italy the stages of the development of masonry arenot very different from those followed in Greece. The followingdivision of the relative antiquity of the different styles of masonryin ancient walls seems to be approved of by the best… … CYCLOlEAN WALLS. no further adjustment than the insertion of small blocks in theinterstices, and so described by Pausanias. j Of this rudest style ofmasonry few specimens now exist; the most celebrated one is thecitadel of Tiryns. The second style, which we would call thePolygonal, though generally…

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