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Title: An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Mollett, John W. (John William)
Subjects: Art Archaeology -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Milliarium, R. (mille, a thousand, sc. paces). A column placed at intervals of a mile (1618 English yards) along a Roman road to indicate the distance. (Fig. 461.) It was also called lapis. Milliarium aureum was the name given to the golden mile-stone erected by Augustus in the forum, where the principal roads of the Empire terminated. A stone, called the ‘‘London Stone’’, in Cannon Street, E.C., is supposed to have marked the centre of the Roman roads in Britain.
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Fig. 461. Roman Mile-stone at Nic-sur-Aisne [?] in France.
[Could be Vic-sur-Aisne, but wrong miliaria. Unknown latin inscription and original illustration published before 1883. Possibly a false miliaria].

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