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indicate that this technique was first developed in the 2nd millennium BCE. The examples there have 2 or 3, and only rarely 4 drafted margins around the bossed panel for functional, not decorative purposes, as they facilitated the placing of the block in the masonry. The margins were usually created with the stone cutters' percussive tools used for regularising the faces, and only rarely cut with a chisel. The masons worked economically, dressing as little as required for construction and leaving the rest of the blocks'

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