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... facing of some other material to the exposed wall - surfaces . These wall - facings range from the squared stone or the irregular stone patch- work ( opus incertum ) of the earliest faced walls , 3 through the neat chequerboard opus ...
... facing of some other material to the exposed wall - surfaces . These wall - facings range from the squared stone or the irregular stone patch- work ( opus incertum ) of the earliest faced walls , 3 through the neat chequerboard opus ...
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... facing south ; and , directly opposite the main block but facing south - east at a slight angle to it , a quayside portico 475 feet ( 145 m . ) long . At the head of the inlet , facing down it and linking the residential block to the ...
... facing south ; and , directly opposite the main block but facing south - east at a slight angle to it , a quayside portico 475 feet ( 145 m . ) long . At the head of the inlet , facing down it and linking the residential block to the ...
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... facing of finer materials [ 173 ] . To outward appearances it is the facing that distin- guishes it from the parent material . Such distinctively Italian facings as opus reticulatum are very rare . Instead , we find the local materials ...
... facing of finer materials [ 173 ] . To outward appearances it is the facing that distin- guishes it from the parent material . Such distinctively Italian facings as opus reticulatum are very rare . Instead , we find the local materials ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Architecture in Rome and Italy from Augustus to the Mid Third Century | 21 |
Architecture in Rome under the JulioClaudian Emperors A D 1468 | 45 |
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aediculae agora already amphitheatre antiquity apse aqueduct arch architect Asia Minor Augustan Augustus Axonometric view Baalbek basilica bath-building Baths brick building built Campania capital Capitolium cella central centre century A.D. classical colonnaded street columnar columns concrete contemporary courtyard decorative detail Diocletian dome Domitian Early Imperial east elaborate emperor Empire enclosure entablature Ephesus example excavated exedrae façade facing feature feet flanked Flavian Fototeca dell'Unione Frigidarium Gaul Greek Hadrian hall hellenistic House Italy J. B. Ward-Perkins late later layout Lepcis Magna marble masonry materials monumental mosaic North nymphaeum Ostia outer palace palaestra pediment peristyle Piazza pilasters podium Pompeii portico prostyle provinces rectangular Republican Restored view Roman architecture Rome roof sanctuary second century Severan side square stage-building stone storeys stucco surviving Syria Temple of Venus terraced theatre third century Timgad town tradition Trajan triclinium upper vaulting villa walls