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The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)

Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 58

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cuse, as drawnby C. R. Cockerell, R.A., in Hughess Travels in Sicily, Greece,and Albania, there are double gates, but no court. Some of Supplementary Volume of the Antiquities of Athens: Entrance Gate of Messene. THE CITY GATES OF P^STUM. 39 the walls are twelve feet thick, where they consist of… … The restoration here presented is founded upon variousauthorities. Other gates of Psestum present this class ofmasonry—the pseudi-sodomum of Vitruvius. The large lintelsover the doorways are frequent, and notably in the exampleof Messene; and the loop-holes are like those in the towers ofthat city.…

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