ARHI 30120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lion Gate, Corbel Arch, Discharging Arch
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We can actually empathise with them, recognize that a person, much like me, just thousands of years before created it. He told a story about a friend who found a terracotta tile with a thumbprint in it and was totally fascinated by it for a whole morning and it changed the course of his career. He told the story about how he found a certain brick, commonly held to be moulded upside down to be in fact molded upright because of the fingerprints visible when it was lifted out of the mould. They have a sense of mystery about them. We can know that they some stone has been there, unmoved for thousands of years (can"t know this anymore if the structure is restored. It takes sort of the same faith as mythology - we can take some things by reading the. The lion gate at mycenae (continued): conscious choice.
