pseudo-vault

Updated: August 21, 2026

Now, as the perfect arch was known and constructed in Etruria at a very early period, this pseudo-vault, which indicates complete ignorance of the principle, must belong to a very remote age indeed to the period of the Cyclopean gateways of Italy and Greece, whose origin is lost in the mist of a far-off antiquity. There are two limits within which the date of the tomb may probably be placed.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood