. 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 . Forfex. ART AND 45 jiyy^ftf. Forum, R. A large open space used bythe Romans as a market ; it ansuered to theGreek Agora (). Fig. 329 represents thefonim civile of Pompeii, xmquestionably oneof the most complete examples bequeathed tous by antiquity. A is the principal entrance ;B, a Cor
. 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 . Forfex. ART AND 45 jiyy^ftf. Forum, R. A large open space used bythe Romans as a market ; it ansuered to theGreek Agora (). Fig. 329 represents thefonim civile of Pompeii, xmquestionably oneof the most complete examples bequeathed tous by antiquity. A is the principal entrance ;B, a Corinthian temple ; C, the public prison{career piiblicus) ; D is supposed to have been ahorrcicm, or public granary ; E, the temple otVenus, the guardian goddess of the city ; F, thebasilica ; G, H, I, the curiae, which were akind of civil and commercial tribunals ; A is arectangular building which probably served thepurpose of a shop for money-changers ; Z, aportico terminating in an absis; M, the templeof Mercury or Quirinus ; N, a building with alarge semicircular tribune, which probablyformed the residence of the Augustales. Forus. A synonym of FoRUM (). Fontsakatorius was the term applied to a dice-table. Fossil Ivory. The tusks of the mammoth—the extinct elephas primigeniiis—found in greatquantity in Siberia, are th
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