Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-RomanGeorge Bell, 1878 - 600 strán (strany) |
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Strana xii
... List of Obelisks 579 580 . • Dimensions in English Feet of the principal Amphitheatres Greek and Roman Short Measures of Length 582 583 , 584 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . SEPARATE PLATES . 143 106. Thoeris xii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... List of Obelisks 579 580 . • Dimensions in English Feet of the principal Amphitheatres Greek and Roman Short Measures of Length 582 583 , 584 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . SEPARATE PLATES . 143 106. Thoeris xii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... feet in length ; the weight of these masses rendered the use of mortar unnecessary . The most ancient buildings were constructed of limestone , hewn from the mountains bordering the valley of the Nile to the east and west ; and that it ...
... feet in length ; the weight of these masses rendered the use of mortar unnecessary . The most ancient buildings were constructed of limestone , hewn from the mountains bordering the valley of the Nile to the east and west ; and that it ...
Strana 13
... feet high . It contained corridors for the sentinels , and towers at equal intervals . This wall is partially the same as that which surrounds the modern city of Rome , with the exception of the part beyond the Tiber . The Janiculum and ...
... feet high . It contained corridors for the sentinels , and towers at equal intervals . This wall is partially the same as that which surrounds the modern city of Rome , with the exception of the part beyond the Tiber . The Janiculum and ...
Strana 21
... feet , which Trajan reduced to sixty . In the palace of the Flavii , lately excavated on the Palatine Hill , the disposition of the apartments is that of an ordinary Roman dwelling ( atrium , tablinum , peristyle , & c . ) , but on a ...
... feet , which Trajan reduced to sixty . In the palace of the Flavii , lately excavated on the Palatine Hill , the disposition of the apartments is that of an ordinary Roman dwelling ( atrium , tablinum , peristyle , & c . ) , but on a ...
Strana 22
... feet by 147 , with its large semicircular apse , which was occupied by the throne , was originally entirely covered with a richly - decorated ceiling ; adjoining this is the peristylium , a large rectangular garden , 174 feet in length ...
... feet by 147 , with its large semicircular apse , which was occupied by the throne , was originally entirely covered with a richly - decorated ceiling ; adjoining this is the peristylium , a large rectangular garden , 174 feet in length ...
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Handbook of Archaeology. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman Hodder Michael Westropp Úplné zobrazenie - 1867 |
Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman Hodder Michael Westropp Úplné zobrazenie - 1878 |
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according alphabet ancient antiquity Apollo appears arch architecture artists Athens Augustus bas-reliefs baths bearing beauty born British Museum bronze building built Bust Cæsar called camei cameo celebrated cella character collection colour columns Corinth Corinthian decastyle deceased deities Doric drapery dynasty earliest Egypt Egyptian emperor engraved stones erected Etruria Etruscan example executed exhibit feet figures flourish frequently front gems glyptic art goddess gods Grecian Greece Greek Hadrian head height Hercules Hexastyle hieroglyphics imitation inscriptions intagli intaglio Ionic Italy Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind king later period Lysippus marble monuments obelisks origin ornaments oval painted vases painter Parthenon peripteral Phidias placed Pliny Pompeii portico Praxiteles pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign remarkable representation represented rings Roman Rome round Sard sardonyx scarabæi sculpture seated sepulchral Severus side signet sometimes statuary statues style subjects supposed tablet Tarquinii temple theatre Thebes tion tomb Trajan usually Vatican Venus Vitruvius vixit walls wife
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Strana 489 - Enos Lases iuvate Neve lue rue Marmar sins incurrere in pleores Satur fu fere Mars limen sali sta berber Semunis Alternis advocapit conctos Enos Marmor iuvato Triumpe. The first five lines were repeated thrice, and Triumpe five times.3 Quintilian tells us that " the hymns of the Salii were hardly intelligible to the priests themselves...
Strana 532 - Petronia, a priest's wife, the type of modesty. — In this place I lay my bones ; spare your tears, dear husband and daughters, and believe that it is forbidden to weep for one who lives in God.
Strana 516 - DESCRIPTVM ET RECOGNITVM EX TABVLA AENEA QVAE FIXA EST ROMAE IN CAPITOLIO AD ARA (sic) GENTIS IVLIAE LATERE DEXTRO Ora al Museo di Sassari, vedi tav.
Strana 149 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Strana 226 - ... these are the marks, in very manifold gradations, however, of the figures which were called satyrs in the genuine language of Greek poetry and art, from which the Roman poets first ventured to depart, who identified them with the Boman fauni, who are described as half men, half goats, and with horns.
Strana 88 - ... were introduced into Rome in the year 390, in order to appease the wrath of the gods for a pestilence then devastating the city, and that ludiones were sent for from Etruria, who acted to the sound of the pipe, in the Etruscan fashion.
Strana 298 - All these were discovered in the sepulchres of the ancients, but the circumstances under which they were found differ according to locality. In Greece, the graves are generally small, being designed for single corpses, which accounts for the comparatively small size of the vases discovered in that country. At Athens, the earlier graves are sunk deepest in the soil, and those at Corinth, especially such as contain the early Corinthian vases, are found by boring to a depth of several feet beneath the...
Strana 122 - ... have said, could not be inserted without special permission from the emperor. Those whose means or interest were insufficient to obtain a private pipe, were obliged to fetch water from the public fountains. It is calculated by M. Rendelet that the nine aqueducts described by Frontinus furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down by a river thirty feet broad, by six deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second.
Strana 137 - The whole structure, 140 feet in height, was crowned by a chariot group in white marble, in which, probably, stood Mausolos himself, represented after his translation to the world of demigods and heroes.
Strana 444 - The hieroglyphic figures were arranged in vertical columns or horizontal lines, and grouped together as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant. They were written from right to left, or from left to' right. The order in which the characters were to be read, was shown by the direction in which the figures are placed, as their heads are invariably turned towards the reader. A single line of...