. 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 . xed on a carriage. Carrotus. A quarrel. (.See Carellis, &c.) Carruca, Carrucha, or Carncha. A carriageof costly description, richly ornamented withbronze and ivory carvings and chased gold. Itdiffered widely from the FsSEOO and the RHEDA(). Carrus or Carrum (Celtic root). A cart orchariot of Gaulis
. 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 . xed on a carriage. Carrotus. A quarrel. (.See Carellis, &c.) Carruca, Carrucha, or Carncha. A carriageof costly description, richly ornamented withbronze and ivory carvings and chased gold. Itdiffered widely from the FsSEOO and the RHEDA(). Carrus or Carrum (Celtic root). A cart orchariot of Gaulish invention, on two wheels, usedin the army as a commissariat waggon. A carrusoccurs among the sculptures on the column ofTrajan. 60 WORDS USED IN Cartamera (Gaulish word). A Gaulish girdlemade of metal, and used to support the bracccc,or trousers. It was made sometimes in the formof a serpent with its tail in its mouth, but moregenerally resembled a fringe of twisted hemp,like the torques, by which name accordingly itwas known among the Romans. (See Torques.) Cartibulum, R. (corrupted from gertibulum,i. e. that which bears or carries). A side-board,consisting of a square slab of stone or marble,supported in the middle by a pedestal or cartibulum always stood against a Fig. 139. Egyptian Cartouche. Cartouche, Egyp. An elliptical tablet ofscroll-like form, containing the names of thePharaohs. Fig. 139 re-presents the cartouche ofKing Artaxerxes. Car-touches were applied todecorate columns, an il-lustration of which maybe seen on the abacusand capital of the columnin Fig. 140. Caryatides (Kapi/ariSes, women of Caryae).Female figures, in anupright posture, whichwere employed in lieuof columns to supportentablatures or any othermembers of of the finest in-stances of the applica-tion of caryatides to thispurpose is to be found inthe portico of the templeof Pandrosos, at A festivalin honour of , which was cele-brat
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