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| special pot for cremated ashes with a head (person or animal) as the lid |
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"consumer of flesh"
A coffin, usually of stone |
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| dignitas, severitas, auctoritas, Romanitas |
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| The title for Roman honour |
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| the ability to do without, live on nothing |
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| a persons ability to rally support around his will |
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| the quality of being a Roman |
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| True to natural appearance, super-realistic |
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| the art and culture of ancient Greece, refers more generally to Greco-Roman art and culture |
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| in ancient Rome, wax portraits of ancestors |
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| in ancient and medieval society, men and women who had been freed from servitude, as opposed to having been born free |
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| An ancient Roman temple dedicated to the gods Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva |
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| the north-south street in a Roman town, intersecting the decumanus at right angles |
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| the east-west street in a Roman town, intersecting the cardo at right angles |
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| the type of house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen |
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| Roman Wall painting c.200-60 BCE |
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| Roman Wall painting c.60-20 BCE |
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| Roman Wall painting c.20 BCE- 60 AD |
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| Roman Wall painting c.60-79 AD |
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| The inscription of king Trajans conquests on the bottom on the Trajan column |
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| Titus: Attic, a dedication inscription |
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| a public building for legal and other civic proceeding, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side. In Christian architecture the church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other |
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| The circular area under a dome; also a domed building |
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| The uppermost story of a building, triumphal arch, or city gate, carved on 3 sides |
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| the first period of the Roman Empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of Augustus Caesar to the Crisis of the Third Century, after which it was replaced with the Dominate |
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| the "despotic" latter phase of government in the ancient Roman Empire from the conclusion of the Third Century Crisis of 235–284 until the formal date of the collapse of the Western Empire in AD 476 |
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| In February 313, Constantine I, emperor controlling the western part of the Roman Empire and Licinius, controlling the Balkans, met in Milan and, among other things, agreed to treat the Christians benevolently |
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| Red that was used in art in Pompeii |
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| an igneous rock with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix, or associated mineral deposit |
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| A painting technique in which pigment is mixed with melted wax and applied to the surface while the mixture is hot |
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| a period of a thousand years |
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| A container for holding relics |
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| a church holding a relic, mostly healing relics, that people pilgrimage to |
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| semicyndrical in cross-section, is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches, one behind the other, over an oblong space |
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| in medieval churches, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept |
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| An almoned-shaped nimbus surrounding the figure of Christ or other sacred figure |
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| one of the last Frankish abbot-statesmen, a historian, and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture |
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| consists typically of an inclined member carried on an arch or series of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmits lateral thrust |
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| a vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them |
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| the "radiant" style of Gothic architecture, dominant in the second half of the 13th century and associated with the French royal court of Lous IX at Paris |
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