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... pediment either in masonry or in wood . The projecturae mutulorum were the projecting ends of the joists ( tigna ) laid lengthwise above the architrave of the side walls from the rear wall to the front of the temple . In greater temples ...
... pediment either in masonry or in wood . The projecturae mutulorum were the projecting ends of the joists ( tigna ) laid lengthwise above the architrave of the side walls from the rear wall to the front of the temple . In greater temples ...
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... pediment could be left plain or be decorated with sculpture after the Greek fashion . The rear pediment and pediments of small temples no doubt usually remained undecorated . A very characteristic shape could be given to the plain pediments ...
... pediment could be left plain or be decorated with sculpture after the Greek fashion . The rear pediment and pediments of small temples no doubt usually remained undecorated . A very characteristic shape could be given to the plain pediments ...
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... pediment was framed by two triangular half - pediments . Such broken pedimental schemes had made their appearance at least half a century earlier on the walls of Pompeii , but they had yet to establish themselves in monumental usage ...
... pediment was framed by two triangular half - pediments . Such broken pedimental schemes had made their appearance at least half a century earlier on the walls of Pompeii , but they had yet to establish themselves in monumental usage ...
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THE STONE AND BRONZE AGES | 5 |
THE EARLY IRON | 16 |
ETRUSCAN ARCHITECTURE | 25 |
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Alba Fucens already amphitheatre Andrén apse arches Architectural Terracottas Asia Minor atrium Augustan Augustus Baalbek barrel-vaulted basilica bath-building Baths brick building built Campania capital Capitoline Capitolium cella central Italy centre Cerveteri classical columnar columns concrete contemporary courtyard Crema decorative Domus Doric Early Iron Age east entablature entrance Etruscan excavated exedrae façade facing feature feet Figure flanked Forum Romanum fourth century front Greek Hadrian hall hellenistic huts Imperial Age Iron Age Italy Late Republican later Latium Lepcis Magna Livy Lugli marble masonry material monumental opus Ostia palace Palatine pediment peristyle Piazza Plate Pliny podium Pompeii portico provinces rebuilt rectangular remains Roman architecture Rome roof San Giovenale sanctuary second century B.C. Severan side stone storeys structure style Syria tabernae terrace terracotta theatre third century Timgad Tomba tombs town tradition Trajan travertine tufa upper vaulted villa Vitruvius Vitruvius's walls Ward-Perkins