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. 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… … m** Fig. 43.—Cyclopean masonry. ment or construction. That of the first or earliestperiod consists of immense rough-hewn lumps, hav-ing interstices filled with smaller stones (Fig. 42); 144 GREECE.
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