The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 168
bviouslyawkward for the fitting of doors eventually broughtabout the insertion of a lintel and a straightening ofthe door jambs, while the open space thus left abovefilled with sculpture, as in the citadel entrance GATE OF LIONS AT MYCENAE. HS called the Gate of Lions (Fig. 45). In this gate-way… … Fig. 45.—Gate of Lions at Mycenae. facing the other, their forefeet resting on an altar. Between them stands a colonnettc, the symbol of Apollo11 146 GREECE. Agvieus, guardian deity of streets, a favourite fea-ture of later Greek porticoes. Another more primitive gate, without sculpture,opens into…
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