. 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 . .Diastyle, Arch. An intercolumniation, inwhich the columns are separated from eachother by a space of three diameters. Diathyrum, Gr. A passage leading at one endto the street-door of a house, and at the otherto the door of the courtyard. The Romanscalled this space Prothyrum (). Diatoni, Diatonoi
. 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 . .Diastyle, Arch. An intercolumniation, inwhich the columns are separated from eachother by a space of three diameters. Diathyrum, Gr. A passage leading at one endto the street-door of a house, and at the otherto the door of the courtyard. The Romanscalled this space Prothyrum (). Diatoni, Diatonoi, Gr. and R. {Siardvw,to extend through). Long stones extendingfrom one face of a wall to the other (to whichmodern architects give the name of pcrpendersor pcrpend-stones), and which were employed inthe method of constmction called Emplecton(). In Fig. 249 one is represented by thestone placed between b and Diatreta, Gr. (Siarpr/ra, i. e. bored through).A drinking-cup made of glass, cut in such away that the designs or ornaments upon itstand out completely from the body of the vase,and form a tracery, which is only united to thevase itself by small ties or pins left for thepur])ose. Diatriba, Gr. and R. (StarplPev, to spendtime). Places in which learned discussionswere held, such as lecture or assembly rooms. Diaulos, Gr. The double flute. (See ,) One in the Uritish Museum, found ina tomlj at Athens, is of cedar-wood, with tubesfifteen inches in length. Diazoma, Gr. (Sid^wna, that whicli girdles).A Greek synonym of the Latin term (). Dicasterion, Dicastery, Gr. {SiKaa-r-npioi ;SlKTi, justice). A tribunal at Atliens in wliichthe people themselves administered justice with-out the intervention of the magistrates. Dicastes. A judge, or rather juryman, chosenannually from the citizens at Athens. Dicerion, Chr. (Si-Kfpatoy, with two horns).A candlestick with two
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