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post and lintel

building system where horizontal elements (beams or lintels) are held up by vertical elements (posts)
Class type of: construction Q30327019

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
architectural style
Subclass of
construction[2]
Has use
door frame[3]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6]
Has part(s)
lintel, beam[4][5]
Has parts
lintel, beam
🏷️ Also known as
en trabeated construction en post and lintel en prop and lintel en post and beam system en trabeated system en post and beam de Pfosten-Riegelkonstruktion es sistema de adintelada es sistema adintelado es adintelada es arquitectura adintelada es construccion adintelada es construcción adintelada es piso es prop y dintel fa نعل-پایه id Tiang dan ambang ja 架構式構造 ja 柱梁構造 ja 柱・梁構造
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Stonehenge Inside Facing NE April 2005.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300001484
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/post-and-lintel-system
Freebase ID
/m/0bjlr
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121vf3nv
Grove Art Online ID
T085978
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
38618358

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Has part(s) 2
beam, lintel
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Has these parts 1
lintel
Instance of 1
architectural style
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Summary

post and lintel is an architectural style[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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