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What (who) is cyclopean masonry - definition
Cyclopean masonry
![Difference between [[ashlar]] masonry (left) and Cyclopean masonry (right), shown in the blue rectangle; [[Lion Gate]], [[Mycenae]], 13th century BCE](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cyclopean773.jpg?width=200 "Difference between [[ashlar]] masonry (left) and Cyclopean masonry (right), shown in the blue rectangle; [[Lion Gate]], [[Mycenae]], 13th century BCE")
![A polygonal wall, excavated at [[Delphi]] in 1902.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fouilles de Delphes (1902) (14792888433).jpg?width=200 "A polygonal wall, excavated at [[Delphi]] in 1902.")
![Walls at [[Ramnous]], [[Attica]]; some are made of rectangular, but irregular stones (mix of types '''1''' and '''4''')](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ramnous005.JPG?width=200 "Walls at [[Ramnous]], [[Attica]]; some are made of rectangular, but irregular stones (mix of types '''1''' and '''4''')")
![The [[Lion Gate]], at [[Mycenae]], with equal-height courses of unequal-width stones](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Lion Gate on 26 March 2019.jpg?width=200 "The [[Lion Gate]], at [[Mycenae]], with equal-height courses of unequal-width stones")
TYPE OF STONEWORK FOUND IN ANCIENT MYCENAEAN ARCHITECTURE
Cyclopean architecture; Cyclopean wall; Cyclopean walls; Cyclopean; Cyclopean Masonry; Cyclopean Walls; Cyclopean structures; Cyclopean stones; Cyclopean fortification
Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or no use of mortar. The boulders typically seem unworked, but some may have been worked roughly with a hammer and the gaps between boulders filled in with smaller chunks of limestone.
Cyclopean
TYPE OF STONEWORK FOUND IN ANCIENT MYCENAEAN ARCHITECTURE
Cyclopean architecture; Cyclopean wall; Cyclopean walls; Cyclopean; Cyclopean Masonry; Cyclopean Walls; Cyclopean structures; Cyclopean stones; Cyclopean fortification
·adj Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
cyclopean
TYPE OF STONEWORK FOUND IN ANCIENT MYCENAEAN ARCHITECTURE
Cyclopean architecture; Cyclopean wall; Cyclopean walls; Cyclopean; Cyclopean Masonry; Cyclopean Walls; Cyclopean structures; Cyclopean stones; Cyclopean fortification
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Gigantic, colossal, vast, enormous, immense, Herculean.
