History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 290
enormous masses, whose collective weight Dr. Adler esti- mates at 12,000 or 13,000 kilogrammes.^ The quarry, it is true, was at no great distance from Tiryns, being situate at the foot of the rocks that bear the citadel of Nauplia, where traces of ancient stone-quarries are still visible.” But even… … Fig. 71. — Tiryns: section of wall through the middle of the eastern face. weight of several stones averages 3,700 to 4,000 kilogrammes, the most part could be easily moved by one or two men.^ The units throughout are not only larger than at Mycenae, but larger than those of any other circuit in…
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