corbel arch

The platform at the summit still has a Machicolation and a corner tower with a corbel arch.

A corbel arch, a diagnostic of this culture, is a pointed vault used as a roof, often but not always to cover a burial chamber.

The A-shaped Corbel arch is an architectural motif observed throughout the complex.

The corbel arch bridge belonged in Mycenaean times to a highway between the two cities, which formed part of a wider military road network.

These domes are not true domes, but are constructed using the corbel arch.

All the temples in Angkor made use of the corbel arch, between the AD 9th and 12th centuries.

Access was via a single doorway sporting a corbel arch; the enclosure was not roofed.

Excavations of the acropolis encountered the fallen remains of corbel arches, but none are still standing.

A well known sacbe connects Uxmal with Kabah, which is marked by corbel arches at either end.

The well-preserved Hellenistic Eleutherna Bridge has a triangular corbel arch.

The corbel arch is structurally weaker than the true arch, of which the Angkorian engineers appear to have been ignorant.

The Lion Gate, the main gate of the wall and an example of a corbel arch, is still admired today.

It is formed of a semi-subterranean room of circular plan, with a corbel arch covering that is ogival in section.

The corbel arch does not produce thrust, or outward pressure at the bottom of the arch, and is not considered a true arch.

Angkorian engineers tended to use the corbel arch in order to construct rooms, passageways and openings in buildings.

Three candle-like tents, placed in a row, crown the church, while its refectory is surmounted by several rows of corbel arches and the fourth tent.

The Newgrange passage tomb has an intact corbel arch (vault) supporting the roof of the main chamber, dating from about 3000BC.

The corbel arch bridge is a masonry, or stone, bridge where each successively higher course (layer) cantilevers slightly more than the previous course.

Kokoshnik gave its name to the decorative corbel arch that was a distinctive element of traditional Russian architecture since 16th century (see kokoshnik in architecture).

Also notable throughout Maya architecture is the corbel arch (also known as a "false arch"), which allowed for more open-aired entrances.

The tiny and picturesque churches of Pskov feature many novel elements: corbel arches, church porches, exterior galleries and bell towers.

The ruins of ancient Mycenae feature many corbel arches and vaults, the "Treasury of Atreus" being a prominent example.

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc rejected European roots for the cathedral; according to him, its corbel arches were Byzantine, and ultimately Asian.

They passed through the outer village, a hundred-meter stretch of low mud and brick buildings dun-colored, neat but unimpressive; then under the corbel arch of the gate.

The Eleutherna Bridge is an ancient Greek corbel arch bridge near the Cretan town of Eleutherna, Greece.