Entablature

Decumanus

East-west street of a Roman camp or town. The square grid layout of the two was basically identical and the decumanus usually ran from the gate in the middle of one wall to the gate opposite. The decumanus maximus was the main east-west street. The main transverse street was known as the cardo; t...

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Decumanus

Hadrian's Villa

Arc Style

An early style of Celtic art, an eastern subgroup in Bavaria, Bohemia, and Austria in which compass-drawn geometric motifs predominate.

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Arc Style

Peripteral

A temple surrounded by a single row of columns, having a row of columns on all sides. An architectural term denoting a building surrounded by an external colonnade, such as Mammisi. The Theseum in Athens is a Doric peripteral temple, with 13 columns at the sides and 6 at the ends.

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Peripteral

Tablero-Talud

In architecture, a sloped basal apron surmounted by a recessed vertical tablet. The talud-tablero architectural motif is typical of Teotihuacán culture: on each body or tier of a stepped pyramid is a rectangular frontal panel (tablero) supported by a sloping batter (talud). The tablero is surroun...

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Tablero-Talud

Opus Sectile

A Roman construction technique using thin pieces marble of different colors in geometric, floral, or figured designs as part of floors or wall surfaces. Latin for "sectioned work" this technical term was used by Vitruvius c 30 BC. Shell or mother-of-pearl was sometimes used instead of marble. Opu...

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Opus Sectile

Amenhotep

The name of four pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, 1390-1353 BC. Amenhotep III (Amenhotep the Magnificent) was the most powerful, reigning 1514-1593 BC. He was preceded by Amenhotep I (1514-1493 BC) and Amenhotep II (c 1426-1400 BC) and succeeded by Amenhotep IV (1352-1336 BC), who was bette...

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Amenhotep

Serdab

In Egyptian architecture, a chamber found in some mastabas of the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC), appearing during the reign of Djoser and widespread in the Giza and Saqqara cemeteries after Menkaure's reign. It consists of a walled-up chamber provided in a mortuary chapel or burial shaft to contain ...

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Serdab

Vomitorium

The way into the cavea of a Roman theater or amphitheater.

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Vomitorium

Aedicula

In Roman architecture, a small shrine usually projecting from an inside wall. Two columns supported a miniature architrave and a pediment. Many wall paintings of Pompeii included aediculae.

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Aedicula

Breccia

A deposit of angular composite stone fragments held together by a matrix of natural cement, such as sap, lime, or a calcium-charged water. Its occurrence indicates a previous cold phase in the climate, since the rock is detached either by frost or alternating heat and cold. Many caves occupied by...

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Breccia

Basilica

Originally a royal palace which consisted of a large oblong building or hall with double colonnades and a semicircular apse at the end, used for a court of justice and place of public assembly. It formed one side of the forum or marketplace. The term owes its original meaning to the fact that in ...

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Basilica

Portico

In Greek and Roman architecture, colonnaded porch, annex, or entrance of a building, such as a palaestra. It could also be a covered walkway supported by regularly spaced columns. Porticoes formed the entrances to ancient Greek temples.

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Portico

Murus Gallicus

A type of rampart used in Europe during the La Tène Iron Age; coined by Julius Caesar to describe the defenses of the Celtic oppidum of Avaricum (Bourges). The ramparts were made of earth and stone with horizontal timber lacing and held together with iron nails. The spaces of the beams were fille...

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Murus Gallicus

Assyria

The name of three different empires dating from about 2000-600 BC, the city-state of Assur, and the people inhabiting this northeastern area of Mesopotamia. Originally Semitic nomads in northern Mesopotamia, they finally settled around Assur and accepted its tutelary god as their own. After the f...

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Assyria

Cloister

A type of court or quadrangle surrounded by covered walkways, much like the atrium of a Roman house. They are usually attached to abbeys with one of the sides bounded by the church; also attached to cathedral churches or colleges. The walls were often adorned with frescoes and the court (cloister...

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Cloister

Entasis

In architecture, the exaggerated convex curve of a column, spire, or similar upright member, intended to give the optical illusion of straight sides. Almost all Classic columns use entasis. It was exaggerated in Doric work. Entasis is also occasionally found in Gothic spires and in the smaller Ro...

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Entasis

Circus

A large building in Roman antiquity, generally a long oblong or oval, used for horse and chariot racing and public spectacles. The audience sat in rising tiers of seats around the track and the races were run around a central island. Rome's Circus Maximus, the largest and best-known, was original...

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Circus

Dromos

Koridor anlamının yanısıra 'koşu, yarış' arılarnma da gelen sözcük, Yunan gymnasionunun pisti için de kullanılır.

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Dromos

Ön Asya ve Yunan mimarilerinde, bir mekana, özellikle de tholos ya da yeraltı mezarlarına giriş koridoru.

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Dromos

A ceremonial corridor or avenue, often fairly long, and sometimes on a descending ramp, that leads to the entrance of certain types of 'roomlike' tomb.

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Dromos

Hypogeum

Kayaya oyulan yeraltı odası veya tonozu tanımlamak için kullanılır. Inhumasyon için kullanılır. Mısır mimarisinde tüm zaman dilimlerinde oldukça fazla kullanılmışlardır.

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Hypogeum

A rock-cut underground chamber or vault, often used for a series of inhumations. They are a principal part of Egyptian architecture of every period.

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Hypogeum

Odeum

Yunancada 'şarkı söylenen yer' anlamına gelir. Yunan ve Roma kentleri içinde müzik dinlemek amacıyla inşa edilen daire ya da yarım daire planlı, üstü kapalı salon, üstü örtülü bir tür küçük tiyatro yapısı. Odeion, tiyatro ve amfi tiyatrolarda olduğu gibi yükseltilmiş oturma sıralarma sahiptir ve ...

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Odeum

[Greek odeion: 'music-hall']. The term perhaps originates with the Odeion built by Pericles at ATHENS in the 5th century BC and intended for musical and artistic performances of some kind. This seems to have been a large rectangular building, with a forest of internal columns, and capped by a pyr...

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Odeum

Metope

Yunan ve Roma mimarilerinde, Dor düzeni tapınakların frizlerinde triglifler arasında yer alan, düz ya da kabartma bezemeli, kare ya da dikdörtgen yüzey. Yalnızca Dor düzeninin bir öğesi olan metop, erken dönemin ahşap yapılarında cephede çatı kirişleri arasındaki boşlukların kapatılması için kull...

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Metope

In architecture, the space between two triglyphs of a Doric frieze often adorned with carved work. It is the part of the entablature of a building of the Doric order placed between triglyphs. The frieze in buildings using the classical Doric order is usually composed of alternate triglyphs (proje...

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Metope

Maenianum

Roma mimarisinde evlerde, apartmanlarda, forumlarda, circuslarda ve amfi tiyatrolarda yer alan balkon.

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