. 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. 137. Carceres. Roman prisons. superioi-), was for prisoners who had only com-mitted slight offences ; the career interior, or. Fig. 138. Carceres. Stables in the circus at Rome. ART AND ARCH/EOLOGY. 59 stage on a level with the ground, served as a placeof confinement in which criminals were place
. 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. 137. Carceres. Roman prisons. superioi-), was for prisoners who had only com-mitted slight offences ; the career interior, or. Fig. 138. Carceres. Stables in the circus at Rome. ART AND ARCH/EOLOGY. 59 stage on a level with the ground, served as a placeof confinement in which criminals were placed toawait the execution of their sentence; lastlythere was the career inferior, or subterraneandungeon called robur, for criminals condemnedto death. Pig. 137 represents the career built atRome by Ancus Martins and Servius Tullius ;Fig. 138 the careeres of the circus. Carchesium (/capxi^f^o^). (i) A drinking-cupof Greek invention, and having slender handlesrising high over the edge, and reaching to thefoot. It was an attribute of Bacchus, and wasused in the religious ceremonies. (2) A scaffold-ing in the shape of the carchesiiiin at the mast-head of a ship. (Anglice, crows-nest.) Cardinalis. (See Scapus.) Cardo. A pivot and socket used for the hingeof a door. The term was also used in carpentryto denote a dove-tailed tenon ; this was calledcardo seciiri-cttlatus, i. e. a tenon in the shape ofan axe, th2 dove-tail bear
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