corbel vaults
Identification code: 300001405
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Components (hierarchy name)
- components (objects parts)
- [components by specific context]
- architectural elements
- [structural elements and components for structural elements]
- structural elements
- enclosing structural elements
- [vaults and vault components]
- vaults (structural elements)
- [vaults by construction]
Alternative term/s
- corbel vault
- corbelled vaults
- vaults, corbel
- vaults, corbelled
Anotations
Scope note:
Vaults constructed by corbeling, or cantilevering, successive courses inward beyond the preceding one, until they meet and are capped at the vault's midpoint.
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