. 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. 170. ()rnament.\l Clipeus 78 WORDS USED IN to the sun : in Roman sculpture it is often outer rim was termed antyx; the dossin the centre, omphalos, or umbo; a leather strapfor the arm, telamon. It was replaced, subse-quently, by the Scutum (). Fig. 169 is anornamented bronze clipetis
. 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. 170. ()rnament.\l Clipeus 78 WORDS USED IN to the sun : in Roman sculpture it is often outer rim was termed antyx; the dossin the centre, omphalos, or umbo; a leather strapfor the arm, telamon. It was replaced, subse-quently, by the Scutum (). Fig. 169 is anornamented bronze clipetis, thought to be term also serves to denote (i) a shieldof metal or marble which was employed asan ornament (Fig. 170 represents an ornamentalshield, such as was placed on the frieze of abuilding, and especially in the metopes of theDoric entablature); and (2) an apparatus em-ployed in the laconiciem () to regulate thetemperature. In the illustration to Caldariuvia slave may be seen pulling the chains ofthe clipeiis. Cloaca, R. (from duo, i. e. the cleanser).A subterranean sewer or canal constructed ofmasonry. The Cloaca Maxima, or Main .Sewer. Fig. 171. Cloaca Maxima at Rome. of Rome, was constructed by the elder Tarquinto drain a marsh lying at the foot of the Palatineand Caiiitoline Hills. Fig. 171 represents oneof its mouths. It was formed of three tiersof arches, the innermost being fourteen feetin diameter. Clocks, O. E., are the gores of a mff, thelaying in of the cloth to make it round, theplaites ; also ornaments on stockings and onhoods. Clog-almanacks. Tlie Anglo-Saxons calcu-lated l)y the ])hases of the moon, set down onsquare pieces of wood, a foot or two long. Theseclogs are still common in Staffordshire. (Cf. Plotf sHistory of Staffordshire; GojigJis CamdciisBritannia, ii. 379.) Cloish, or Closh, O. E. A kind of nine-pinsplayed with a ball. {Strutf, p. 202.) Cf. Club- Cloisonne. A form of enamelling by incrus- tation, in which the pattern
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