corbel vault
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- relationship to corbel arch
- In corbel
…a series, they become a corbel vault, which, as in the Mayan style, can support a roof or upper story. Corbel vaults and arches were useful in cultures that had not yet developed curving arches and other ceiling structures. Structural corbeling has fallen out of general use in contemporary architecture.
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development in
Mesopotamia
- In construction: Bronze Age and early urban cultures
Corbel vaults and domes made of limestone rubble appeared at about the same time in Mesopotamian tombs (Figure 1). Corbel vaults are constructed of rows of masonry placed so that each row projects slightly beyond the one below, the two opposite walls thus meeting at…
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- Sumeria
- In Mesopotamian art and architecture: Architecture
…assumed, although some knowledge of corbeled vaulting (a technique of spanning an opening like an arch by having successive cones of masonry project farther inward as they rise on each side off the gap)—and even of dome construction—is suggested by tombs at Ur, where a little stone was available.
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- Tiryns
- In Western architecture: Fortification
of Tiryns, where the corbel vault (constructed of rows of masonry placed so that each row projects slightly beyond the one below, the two opposite walls meeting at the top) makes its first appearance in mainland Europe.
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