A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Another specimen of the buildings at Tiryns, ofmuch more regular construction, may be seen atp. 125. 2. In other cases we find the blocks still of ir-regular polygonal shapes, but of a constructionwhich shows a considerable advance upon theformer. The stones are no longer unhewn (apyol\idoi), but their sides are sufficiently smoothed tomake each fit accurately into the angles betweenthe others, and their faces are cut so as to give thewhole wall a tolerably smooth surface. Examplesof this sort of work are very common in engraving is t
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Another specimen of the buildings at Tiryns, ofmuch more regular construction, may be seen atp. 125. 2. In other cases we find the blocks still of ir-regular polygonal shapes, but of a constructionwhich shows a considerable advance upon theformer. The stones are no longer unhewn (apyol\idoi), but their sides are sufficiently smoothed tomake each fit accurately into the angles betweenthe others, and their faces are cut so as to give thewhole wall a tolerably smooth surface. Examplesof this sort of work are very common in engraving is taken from the walls of Larissain 3. In the third species, the blocks are laid inhorizontal courses, more or less regular (sometimesindeed so irregular, that none of the horizontal jointsare continuous), and with vertical joints eitherperpendicular or oblique, and with all the jointsmore or less accurately fitted. The walls of My-cenae present one of the ruder examples of thissort of structure ; and the following engraving ofthe Lion Gate, of that fortress (so called fromthe rudely sculptured figures of lions) shows alsothe manner in which the gates of these three spe-cies of walls were built, by supporting an immenseblock of stone, for the lintel, upon two others, forjambs, the latter inclining inwards, so as to givemore space than if they were upright. A verylarge number of interesting examples of these con-
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