. 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 . r thelintel. Fig. 151 represents the doorwav of anancient monument at Agrigentum, in Sicily. Attires. Attired, Her. The antlers of a slagor hart having antlers. Attributes. Conventional svmbols of thecharacter, or the agencv, or the history, ofsubjects of art representation. Auditorium, R. (a place fo
. 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 . r thelintel. Fig. 151 represents the doorwav of anancient monument at Agrigentum, in Sicily. Attires. Attired, Her. The antlers of a slagor hart having antlers. Attributes. Conventional svmbols of thecharacter, or the agencv, or the history, ofsubjects of art representation. Auditorium, R. (a place for hearing). Alecture-room, assembly-room, court of justice, orgenerally any place in which orators, poets, &c.,were heard. The contained halls sonamed, in which courts of justice were held. ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY. 29 Augmentation, Her. An honourable additionto a coat of arms. Augurale, R.[aug/n; a sooth-sayer). In a Ro-man camp theaugurale was aplace situated tothe right of thegenerals tent or P RyE T OR I UM (). It was socalled because theaugurs there tooktheir station to ob-serve the flight ofbirds. In Greece,the oracles N\ereconsulted ; but inRome questionswere addressed toJupiter, who an-swered simply^Do or ^^ Donot, by his mes-sengers the gave Fig. 51. Atticurge doorwayat Agrigentum. Augustines Oak, at Aust on the Severn ; thescene of the conference between St. Augustineand the British bishops, 602. Aula, Gr. and R. (auAri). (i) An open courtattached to a house. Tt was usually in front,and on either side of it were the stables andoffices. When it belonged to a farm it wasround this courtyard that the stabling, sheepfolds,and other outhouses were arranged. (2) Aularegia was the central part of the scene in a Greekor Roman theatre. Aulaea or Aulaeum, R. [aula, a hall), (i) Hang-ings or tapestry used to decorate the dining-roomor irkliniuni, or generally, any piece of tapestryused as a curtain, whether to cover a doorway,act as a scr
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