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| a territory under the immediate political control of a state |
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| north-south oriented street in Roman cities, military camps, and colone. an intergal component of city planning |
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| east-west oriented road in a roman city |
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| row of arches supported on piers or columns |
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| temple on rome's capitoline hill |
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| in ancient rome, houses occupied by the wealthy and middle class |
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| open roofed entrance hall or central court in an ancient roman house |
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| row of columns (1) round the outside of a building (usually a greek temple) (2) round the inside of an courtyard and by extension the space so enclosed |
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| a formal dining room in a Roman building |
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| a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban city population of ancient rome |
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| large and usually free standing ceremonial arch built to celebrate a military victory |
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| round or oval area with tiers of seats all around |
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| a rich and elaborate tomb, so called from the tomb of a greek ruler |
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| a flattened column, rectangular in section, attached to a wall as decoration, without structural function |
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| bonded into a wall, not free standing |
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| a vaulted ceiling of semi-circular shape, creating a dome like appearance |
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| produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults |
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| a concave roof, roughly hemispherical, on a circular base |
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| ornamental sunken panels in a ceiling or dome |
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| upper interior surface of a room |
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| regular solid with a square base and sides sloping inwards to meet at a point |
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| a round level structure on which people or things can stand |
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| a two walled or single walled court used as a playing area |
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| the central space of a basilica, flanked by the aisles and lit by the clerestory |
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| in basilican buildings, one of the lateral divisions parallel with the nave but not as high |
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| part of a cruciform chruch at right angles to the nam and chancel |
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| part of a building that is semicircular or u-shpaed in plan |
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| a rigid tringualr frame work designed to span an opening and to carry title or lead |
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| the upper window level of a large enclosed space rising above adjacent roofs |
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| central or centralized plan |
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| a plan symmetrical, or nearly so, in all four directions |
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| basilica or longitudinal plan |
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| church plan in which the navel corcel axis is longer than the transepts |
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| emperor of rome who stopped persecution of christians and made christianity the official religion of the roman empirre |
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| the curved triangular surface that results when the top corner of a square space is vaulted so as to provide a circular base for a dome |
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| small cubes of glass or stone set in a cement bedding as decoration for wall surfaces or floors |
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| a small block of stone, title, glass or other material used in the construction of a mosaic |
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| as the fist holy roman emperor, he promoted the arts and education |
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| building or building occupied by a community of monks or nuns |
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| community of people, especially monks or nuns, living under religious vows |
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| group of people living under a religious rule |
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| a square court surrounded by an open arcade |
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| the entrance of lobby area of a church, located at the end of a nave |
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| the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface, over an entrance bounded by a lintel and arch |
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| a continuous aisle forming a processional path round some larger enclosed space |
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| a journey to a place associated with someone or something well known or respected |
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| an object or personal item of religious significance |
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