22 ON THE OLDER FORMS OF 



INDIA. 



So far as museum specimens and photographs have en- 

 abled me to judge, the roofing-tiles used everywhere in 

 India are of the normal type ( usual ly imb.). Judging by 

 the form of the imbrex as shown in photographs of Bom- 

 bay houses, it would seem that in their manufacture a 

 tapering cylinder of clay is turned on a potter's-wheel, and 

 then cut in halves longitudinally, and these halves are used 

 as tegula and imbrex. As an evidence of this, in the Bom- 

 bay roof the tiles bordering the eaves terminate as cylin- 

 drical tiles, the tapering: end entire and projecting slightly 

 beyond the eaves, while the larger end is cut half-way 

 through to accommodate the overlapping and inverted tiles 



FIG. 33. 



that cover the tinder courses, as shown in fig. 33 (sketched 

 from a photograph in the India Museum, London). 



In Madras the normal tile (teg.) is used. In some cases 

 the eaves have two thicknesses of tegulse below and three 

 above (fig. 34). The tiles used at Poona, near Bombay, 

 are a variety of the normal type (fig. 35), the tegulae 

 being flat with upturned edges. 



This tile is 23 centimetres long ; the exposed edge is 

 14 centimetres wide and tapers rapidly to a width of 9 

 centimetres, with rounded ends. The imbrex is semi- 

 cylindrical, 28 centimetres long, 10 centimetres across at 

 the exposed end, and tapers to a width of 6 centimetres. 



