Sentence examples for domed vault from inspiring English sources
Kostas Sismanidis said he was almost sure that a 2,400 year-old domed vault he unearthed in ancient Stagira was the burial place of the man credited with formalising logic.
In architecture the use of ayvans (arches in porticoes) and domed vaults is attributed to the Parthian period; they may have originated in Mesopotamia.
Romanesque (meaning Roman-like) was a rediscovery of the masonry techniques of the Roman empire, characterized by rounded arches, domed vaults and cut-stone masonry that emphasize the power of mass, space and gravity, rather than the more ethereal vertical aspirations of the Gothic.
If domed lids are supplied try filling the dome too.
The spaces around the domed western bay would have been covered with barrel or cross-vaults.
The vault resembled an airplane hangar; it extended more than two hundred yards, with a domed ceiling that was forty-one feet high and walls that were cloaked in condensation and algae.
By comparing the skulls with 6000 others from around the world, the scientists concluded that the most complete adult skull was clearly a Homo sapiens, with the vault of its braincase shaped like a pentagon, a wide upper face, and a moderately domed forehead.
