Sentence examples for roof combs from inspiring English sources

Apart from its beautiful, ornamented facades and roof combs, it is set in a jungle that is teeming with wildlife.

Both of these pyramids probably originally supported roof combs and were accessed by twin stairways rising from the plaza to the west.

The pyramid has a projecting stairway that rises to a summit shrine that possessed three corbel-vaulted chambers and a roof comb; the ceilings and roof comb had collapsed into the first two chambers prior to archaeological exploration.

The pyramid was topped by a three-room temple that possessed a tall stucco-covered roof comb.

In the Late Classic a nine-room palace was built on top of the pyramid, supporting a roof comb that had painted stucco bas-relief decoration.

This resulted in a base height of 16.4 m; a new summit shrine was built upon this, possessing three vaulted rooms and an elaborate roof comb.

The ruined building currently stands over 22 m high; with its summit shrine and roof comb intact it would have been taller.

Temple IV is the tallest temple-pyramid at Tikal, measuring 70 m from the plaza floor level to the top of its roof comb.

By the Early Classic, eight temple-pyramids stood upon the platform, each with an access stairway flanked by masks, a small summit shrine and an elaborate roof comb.

Rosalila is notable for its excellent state of preservation, including the entire building from the base platform up to the roof comb, including its highly elaborate painted stucco decoration.

At the top there should be an even steeper temple with cobbled arches and with a roof comb on top of that.