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{{Short description|Architectural element}} [[File:Domusitalica.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|Diagram of a typical Roman [[domus]].]] ...

...ok|author=Forbes, R. J.|author-link=Robert Jacobus Forbes|title=Studies in Ancient Technology|year=1966|edition=2nd, revised|location=Leiden|publisher=E. J. B [[Category:Ancient Roman architectural elements]] ...

{{Short description|Architectural ornament}} ==Ancient Roman architecture== ...

...th balls after the bather had been anointed. They were also provided in [[Roman villa]]s. [[Category:Ancient Roman architectural elements]] ...

...ium''' was a smoke chamber used in ancient Rome to enhance the flavor of [[Ancient Rome and wine|wine]] through artificially "[[aging (wine)|aging]]" the wine ...at the ban on smoked wines as offerings in the [[Mishna]] stemmed from the Roman use of sulphur fumes - a uniquely [[Gentile]] technique.<ref>John Kitto, '' ...

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...[[wing]]') is an external [[colonnade]] around a building, especially an [[Ancient Greek temple]].<ref>[[A. W. Lawrence|Lawrence, A. W.]], ''Greek Architectur [[Category:Ancient Roman architectural elements]] ...

....jpeg|right|thumb|The Roman [[Maison Carrée]], [[Nîmes]], illustrating the Roman version of a stylobate.]] [[File:ARCHITECTURE ORDERS Greeks Etruscan Roman (Doric Ionic Corinthian Tuscan Composite) by Paolo Villa ENG edition.pdf|th ...

...ght|The [[Maison Carrée]] at [[Nîmes]], a [[hexastyle]] pseudoperipteral [[Roman temple]]]] ...[[ancient Greek temple]]s, especially in the [[Hellenistic]] period. In [[Roman temple]]s, the pseudoperipteral form became usual, where there were columns ...

...ng of water from his eaves. The law of Eavesdrip had its equivalent in the Roman [[stillicidium]], which prohibited building up to the very edge of an estat [[Category:Architectural elements]] ...

...s a shadow under the [[cymatium]] (to either side of the [[gutta]]) in the Roman [[Doric order]] at the [[Theater of Marcellus]]]] * [[Roman architecture]] ...

...arkers often took the form of a half-figure of the god on a pillar, though ancient survivals in this form are extremely rare. In the architecture and the painted architectural decoration of the European [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] and the ...

{{Short description|Building system where horizontal elements are held up by vertical ones}} ...ure)|capitals]], to help spread the load, is common to many [[architecture|architectural]] traditions. ...

...Principle of architectural theory that describes the relationships between elements of a design}} '''Proportion''' is a central principle of [[architectural theory]] and an important connection between [[mathematics and art]]. It is ...

{{Short description|Suspended roof or shade awning of ancient Rome}} ....svg|thumb|Model of the Colosseum with its ''velarium'' in the [[Museum of Roman Civilization]]]] ...

{{Short description|Architectural style, inspired by classical Greco-Roman architectural principles}} ...Greek architecture]] and the [[ancient Roman architecture|architecture of ancient Rome]]. It also refers to the style or styles of architecture influenced by ...

...d by the emperor [[Augustus]] as his own lucky star sign and appeared on [[Roman currency|coins]] and legionary standards.<ref name="Met">{{cite web |title= Image:Terracotta antefix MET SF111401.jpg|Roman antefix decorated with the butting heads of two billy goats, The MET ...

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{{Short description|Parisian ruins of Gallo-Roman baths}} ...Y-Maquette thermes 2.JPG|thumb|Model of Thermes de Cluny showing the major elements of the baths. In the center of the picture is the [[frigidarium]]; to the l ...

...decorative)|decorative molding]] profile used in [[Ornament (architecture)|architectural ornamentation]]. Its profile is a quarter to a half of a more or less flatt ...in Classic architecture was invariably carved with the egg and tongue. In Roman and Italian work the moulding is called by workmen a quarter round.<ref nam ...