Note 20 — THE MOUNTAIN VILLA—LAGO DI COMO (Continued).

In the large buildings, that is: κεραμος also signifies earthen tiling, and sometimes earthenware in general, as in Herodotus iii. 6 [where it is used of earthen jars of wine.] It appears that such tiling was frequently used in smaller edifices. The Greeks may have derived their flat roofs from Egypt. Herodotus mentions of the Labyrinth of the Twelve Kings, that ὁροφη δε παντων τουτων λιθινη, but not as if the circumstance were in the least extraordinary [Herodotus ii. 148.]