Above the calotteare the three windows of the first floor room, 88, covered by segmental arches.
The same rosette is placed on either side of each calotte and within the calotte, the rosette above the calotte being omitted.
Within the semicircle of the embracing arch there is a shallow calotte decorated with broken concentric rings.
The calotteis outlined by a singular decoration composed of a crenellated motive.
About ·90 metre above the arch of the door stands a very shallowcalotte covering the niche.
The correspondingcalotte on the west side has fallen.
Above the calottethere is a small rectangular window (Plate 45, Figs.
The calotte archivolts at their highest point are 3·50 metres above the present level of the floor.
Reuther has observed,[18] the calotte is not ‘the segment of a pointed dome, but its curve in horizontal section springs sharply back from the face of the archivolt and flattens rapidly behind.
The calotte was carried over the angles by shallow squinches, of which the archivolt was decorated with a zigzag ornament in plaster,[34] while at the base of the calotte there has been a similar band of plaster ornament.
Above the level of the calotte the angles of the building on either side appear to have been similarly sliced off.
For this purpose they had conducted the mob to my prison, but the speedy arrival of the soldiers had upset their plans; Maubranne was dead, and I lay on a mattress in La Calotte de la Bazinière.
The calotte does not form until several months after the winter solstice, and it begins to melt, as a rule, shortly after the vernal equinox.
When discipline was relaxed, the Calotteassumed too great powers.
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