Architectura Numismatica: Or, Architectural Medals of Classic Antiquity : Illustrated and Explained by Comparison with the Monuments and the Descriptions of Ancient Authors, and Copious Text. One Hundred Lithographs and WoodcutsDay & Son, 1859 - 349 pages |
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Page 243 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 133 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Page 241 - IMP • CAES • NERVAE • TRAIANO • AVG GER • DAC • P • M • TR • P • COS • V • P • P...
Page 74 - The richest wines, the most extraordinary victims, and the rarest aromatics were profusely consumed on his altar. Around the altar a chorus of Syrian damsels performed their lascivious dances to the sound of barbarian music, whilst the gravest personages of the state and army, clothed in long Phoenician tunics, officiated in the meanest functions, with affected zeal and secret indignation.53 To this temple, as to the common centre of religious worship, the Imperial fanatic attempted to remove the...
Page 209 - On the third day, early in the morning, first came up the trumpets, not with such airs as are used in a procession of solemn entry, but with such as the Romans sound when they animate their troops to the charge.
Page 45 - Omine quod certo dux ferit ense ducem; Seu quia victa suis humeris haec arma ferebant, Hinc Feretri dicta est ara superba lovis.
Page 292 - Post scenam Porticus sunt constituendae, uti, cum imbres repentini ludos interpellaverint, habeat populus, quo se recipiat ex theatro, choragiaque laxamentum habeant ad comparandum : uti sunt Porticus Pompeianae.
Page 26 - ... and proportion of a female. The successors of these people, improving in taste, and preferring a more slender proportion, assigned seven diameters to the height of the Doric column, and eight and a half to the Ionic. That species, of which the lonians were the inventors, has received the appellation of Ionic.
Page 120 - They are called El Kulah (the castle) by the Samaritans, and are probably the remains of the fortress erected by Justinian. (Robinson, vol. iii. p. 99.) Round a large naked rock, a little to the south of the castle, which is reputed the most sacred place of all, are traces of walls, which may possibly indicate the position of the temple, particularly as the Samaritans profess that this is the place where the ark formerly rested in the tabernacle. Further south, and indeed all around upon this eminence,...