Saturday, October 3, 2015

Corbel-vaulted gallery

Tirnys, Greece circuit wall-citadel
corbel-vaulted gallery
1400-1200BCE  stone blocks
no mortar  pointed arch
fortified wall   held by its weight
blocks placed horizontal
cantilevering inward
crude/effective/unsophisticated
small stones as wedges
clay filled in empty spaces

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