The lintel stone usually states who built the house and the year it was built in.
"I still don't see how the big, heavy lintel stones may be moved by means of panthers," I said.
"What has that to do with moving lintel stones?"
The lintel stone above the doorway weighs 120 tons, the largest in the world.
The Library was huge, the great lintel stone above the doorway held on the shoulders of two 30-foot-tall statues.
The current lintel stone (its second) notes the 1836 rebuild and another by the Merchant's House in 1874.
This has a large lintel stone and the sides slope inwards towards the top (69).
The Spartan had climbed to the lintel stone above the door.
There, on a hill, stand two colossal pillars linked by a great lintel stone.
Lying squarely on top of them, in their proper places, were the lintel stones.