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Cyclopean masonry
Also called cyclopean
Walling of huge, roughly shaped blocks with small stones packed in the gaps, as at Tiryns and Mycenae, named because later Greeks thought only the giant Cyclopes could have lifted them.
See also: Ashlar, Polygonal masonry
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Walls and Openings, The Ancient World.
Nearby in the glossary
Curtain wall · Curvilinear tracery · Cushion capital · Cusp · Cyma recta · Cyma reversa · Dancheong · Deconstructivism