De architectura, 6.3.4
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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1st century BCE See all items with this value
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Vitruvius See all items with this value
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De architectura, 6.3.4
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Imagines item alte cum suis ornamentis ad latitudinem sint constitutae.
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Noun (plural) See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Portrait See all items with this value
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Imagines (wax mask portraits of ancestors)
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Visual Work: Jewellery See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Inscription See all items with this value
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Unspecified, but other context suggests: jewellery, sculpted drapery, inscriptions
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Quatremère de Quincy 1815: 37
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"Ornaments of imagines". Unclear. They are to be set up with them, so presumably detachable. Possibly jewellery? Or attributes? (Old sense of "ornamentum" as "equipment". Or, as De Quincy suggested were used, sculpted busts complete with the "commencement of drapery" (which one could interpret together as "ornamenta") from which the masks could then be detached for use in funerary processions. The verb here suggested that the masks were "set up" rather than hung, so it is perhaps so.
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A00203
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