The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 166
FlG. 41.—Doorway of Cyclopean period. CYCLOPEAN MASONRY. 143 tures called treasuries still exist, and are built of thehuge stones above mentioned. The walls averagetwenty-five feet in thickness, are laid up dry withoutcement, and are pierced at intervals with triangular … FlG. 42.—Cyclopean masonry. windows and doors. These were arched by makingeach course slightly overlap the other until they metin a point, or (to speak more technically) by corbel-ling ; while the ridges were chiselled off to present asmooth surface on the inside (Fig. 41). Henry Schliemann divides…
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