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
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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