. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 676. Plate of Urbino Ware, Louvre Museum. Urceolated (Basket), Arch, The corbel ofthe capital which narrows a little underneath itsupper part. Urceolus. Diminutive of Urceus (). Urceus, R. An earthenware pitcher used inreligious ceremonies ; represented on coins in theform of a modern ewer, U
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 676. Plate of Urbino Ware, Louvre Museum. Urceolated (Basket), Arch, The corbel ofthe capital which narrows a little underneath itsupper part. Urceolus. Diminutive of Urceus (). Urceus, R. An earthenware pitcher used inreligious ceremonies ; represented on coins in theform of a modern ewer, Uriant, Her. Said of a fish when it swims in avertical position ; head downwards. (Cf. Hau- RIANT.) Urn. The common urn,the Ka\wis oftlie Cireeks,had a nar-row neck andswelling bo-dy ; it wasused for con-veying waterfrom the foun-tain. The fu-nereal cine-rary um wasin generalquad r angu-lar, but therewere a large number which resembled the kalpis,with the exception that they had a wider neckand were furnished in every case with a Fig. 677. Funereal urn, Indian. 332 WORDS USED IN Fig. 677 represents a funeral urn of Indian pot-tery, of very ancient date. The electoral urn,from which lots were drawn at the comitiato decide the order of voting, was of an ovalform and had a narrow neck to prevent thepossibility of more than one number being drawnout at a time. An urn is always introduced as anappropriate emblem of the river-gods. Thelima was a measure of capacity containingeight coiii^ii or half an Amphora. Tlrnarium, R. A square table or hollowslab on which unice or earthenware vessels wereplaced. Ustrina, TTstrinum, R. {tfro, to burn). Apublic place for burning the bodies of the dead,in contradistinction to BusTUM, a private placeof cremation, situated within the sepulchralenclosure. It was in the public ustrina that thebodies of people of moderate means as well asthe poor were burned. Titer, R. A wine-skin or large leathern bagmade of goat-skin, pig-skin, or ox-hide, and us
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