De architectura, 6.3.9

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Text Category
Literature: prose See all items with this value
Century Range
1st century BCE See all items with this value
Location of Display
Rome See all items with this value
Author
Vitruvius See all items with this value
Reference
De architectura, 6.3.9
Language
Latin See all items with this value
Quotation
Supra earum epistylia et ornamenta lacunariis ornantur ...
Part of Speech
Noun See all items with this value
Verb (passive) See all items with this value
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building See all items with this value
Architecture See all items with this value
Architectural Element See all items with this value
Object/ Person Ornamented
Entablatures in Egyptian oeci (halls)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief See all items with this value
Visual Work: Painting See all items with this value
Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
Medium/a Ornamenting
Ornaments of entablatures are unspecified; context suggests: their architraves
frieze (figural relief sculpture) or metopes (figural) and triglyphs (non-figural)
cornice, and their subsidiary carved element or spaces
panelled ceilings (potentially including figural and non-figural carved/sculpted or stuccoed/painted features)
Item Identifier
A00204
Determination
Interpreted from context
Item sets
Inscription by Location/ Region
Vitruvius
1st century BCE
Architecture (Ornamented)
Sculpture (Ornamenting)
Painting
Architectural Element
Building
Architecture (Ornamenting)
Architectural Element
Relief