. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. base,0 ft. high, and about 2 ft. thick,of a triangular form suited to the»et(.ss mule for its rcci-ption Ilus block, m its ijipc i\ uiee, resembles the green basalt of ;i5. In this (dace we think it projier to notice a buililing at Mycene, which has beencalled by some the Treasury of Atreus, or the tomb of his son Agamenuion mentioned byiausaiiias. This building at first misled some authors intoa belief that the use of the arch was known in Greece a
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. base,0 ft. high, and about 2 ft. thick,of a triangular form suited to the»et(.ss mule for its rcci-ption Ilus block, m its ijipc i\ uiee, resembles the green basalt of ;i5. In this (dace we think it projier to notice a buililing at Mycene, which has beencalled by some the Treasury of Atreus, or the tomb of his son Agamenuion mentioned byiausaiiias. This building at first misled some authors intoa belief that the use of the arch was known in Greece at avery early period ; but examination of it shows that it wasformed by horizontal courses, jjrojecting beyond each other asthey rose, and not l)y radiating joints or beds, and that the sur-face was afterwards formed so as to give the whole the ap-pearance of a pointed dome, by cutting away the lower angles(Ji(/. 14.). It is jirobahly the most ancient of buildings inGreece ; and it is a curious circumstance that at New Grange, near Urogheda, in Ire-land, tliere is a monument >vhose form, construction, and plan of access resemble it .so.
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