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Title: Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842
Subjects: Classical antiquities Civilization, Medieval
Publisher: London : M. A. Nattali
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d borders, and a device or figurein the centre. Pounded tile was putupon the stucco, in the ordinary rooms.In one instance remains of a carpetwere found. The floors of the porti-coes appear to have been of cement.^Sometimes floors were moveable ;^ andat Pompeii, in the centre of one, thereoccurs a labyrinth, which Alberti ^ sayswas for the exercise of the children. I shall end this account with thestyle which succeeded 370 «. c. Itconsists of the Isodomon, (stones inregular courses,) the joints resting onthe centres of the adjacent stones. Acuriosity of the Tov\ers (at Messene)is the staircase fashion of the battle-ments.f l> Sicily, p. 18, ^ Pompeiana, 107, IGO, 161.■i For. Top. ^ Veteres in pavimentis portions quadrangulosrotundosqne labjrinthos pingebant quibus pueriexercerentur, fol. cxl. Hence the maze for theboys on Catherine Hill, near Winchester. f Tlic j)lates in the new edition of StuartsAthens, vol. iv. concerning this style at Messinaare curious and very interesting.
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Interior of a Roman Temple at Balbec, to illustrate, p. 49. CHAPTER IV. PUBLICK EDIFICES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. Barrows, or sepulchral mounds,with altars raised upon them for sacri-fices, are antecedent to the formalconstruction of temples. Hence themost ancient heathen structures forofferings to the. Gods were alwayserected upon or near the sites oftombs. The sanctity of the Acropolisof Athens owed its origin to the sepul-chre of Cecrops; and, without thisleading cause of veneration, the nu- =» Balbec is the ancient Heliopolis, or City ofthe Sun, of which there are magnificent ruins. Itis situated at the foot of Mount Lihanus, in Syria,and is of the sera of Antoninus Pius. (WoodsBalbec, p. 11.) The View here given is fromMontfaucon. merous temples with wliich it wasafterwards adorned would never havebeen erected. The Temple of Jerusa-lem was built upon the mountain,where Abraham raised an altar for thesacrifice of Isaac.^ It is noted by Montfaucon ^, thatCloses does notmention an

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