De architectura, 3.3.5

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De architectura, 3.3.5
Quotation
Et ipsarum aedium species sunt varicae, barycephalae, humiles, latae, ornanturque signis fictilibus aut aereis inauratis earum fastigia tuscanico more, uti est ad Circum Maximum Cereris et Herculis Pompeiani, item Capitoli.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Buildings in the areostyle. (Examples given are: the Temple of Ceres on the Circus Maximus
Pompey's Temple of Hercules
the Temple of Jupiter on the Capiitol)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Material: Terracotta
Visual Work: Material: Bronze
Medium/a Ornamenting
Statues in terracotta and gilded bronze on the pediments (applied figural sculpture in the round)
Item Identifier
A00188
Determination
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