Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . GATE OF SEGNI. The next form of gateway adopted was that which was generally usedin the second stage of the development of the principle of the arch,which was formed by placing horizontal courses of stones, project-ing one over another, from both sides, till they met at the top, andthen cutting the ends of the projecting stones in a curvilinear form,. GATEWAY AT AttPINO. as may be seen in a gateway at Thoricus in Attica, and in the almostidentical one at Arpino. This style of gateway, and other similar 88 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. a
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . GATE OF SEGNI. The next form of gateway adopted was that which was generally usedin the second stage of the development of the principle of the arch,which was formed by placing horizontal courses of stones, project-ing one over another, from both sides, till they met at the top, andthen cutting the ends of the projecting stones in a curvilinear form,. GATEWAY AT AttPINO. as may be seen in a gateway at Thoricus in Attica, and in the almostidentical one at Arpino. This style of gateway, and other similar 88 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. attempts at the principle of the arch, are always in connection withthose walls which are built of blocks laid in horizontal courses, and areto be met with both in Etruria and Greece, for there was a corres-pondence in the sequence and development of styles in arches andwalls among the Etruscans and Greeks. The more perfectly deve-loped form, or radiating arch, is found in the gateways of Volterra,Falleri, Pa3stum, and Pompeii, in connection with the regular hori-zontal style of masonry. The discovery of this style of arch is gene-ral! jr attributed to Etruria; the existence, however, of radiating archesin Egypt, Kineveh, and Ethiopia, of an ancient date, has inclinedsome antiquaries to contest the honour of originality with Etruria. Itis not, however, inconsistent with the independent progress of deve-lop
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