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Arch hist (e2)
Roman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acroterion (acroterium) | An upright ornament placed at the apex and eaves of gabled roofs in Greek architecture |
| Aisle | a passage way between rows of seats |
| Amphitheater | an arena with raked seating arranged around a circular or oval floor |
| Annular vaults | vaults making a ring shape |
| Apollodorus of Damascus | a greek architect designed Forum of Trajan |
| Apse | the termination of the nave of a basilica or the choir in a basilican church |
| Aqueduct | a pipe for conducting water under gravity flow. Their term is often applied to the arched structure built to support the pipe across valleys |
| Arena | a level area with seating around for spectators |
| Barrel vault | a semicircular vault over a rectangular space |
| Basilica | Literally, "king's hall." In Roman architecture, a hall used for public administration. The term generally refers to a rectangular building that has a central section with a higher roof (the nave if a church) flanked by lower aisles on both long sides. |
| Basilica | A semicircular projection, the apse, was often set at one or both of the shorter ends. |
| Basilica | Early Chirstians adapted the form as a basis for church design, replacing one apse with the main entrace and establishing a processional axis the length of the building. The alter was placed in the apse at the end. |
| Brick stamps | words in bricks |
| Caldarium | the hot or sweating bath chamber in Roman baths or thermae |
| Cavea | the subterranean cells in which wild animals were confined before the combats in the Roman arena or amphitheatre |
| Cella | the shrine room in the center of a temple |
| Centering | the wooden scaffold or form required to support a masonry vault or arch while under construction |
| Chamber tomb | a tomb for burial |
| Clerestory | windows placed high in a wall, generally above lower roof elements |
| Coffer | ceiling recesses set in a geometric pattern |
| Columns | in classical architecture, the upright structural element consisting of a base, shaft, and capital |
| Concrete | a plastic building material consisting of sand, water, cement, and aggregate, which hardens to a stone-like consistency |
| Constantine | Roman Emperor from 306 to 337. Best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor; proclaimed religious tolerance of Christians throughout the empire. |
| Cross vault (groin vault) | the vault formed by two intersecting barrel vaults. |
| Curia | a subdivision of the people |
| Diocletian | a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305.; persecution of Christians |
| Dome | a continuously curved roof over a polygonal or circular plan, generally having a semicircular or elliptical section |
| Engaged column | column integrated with the wall |
| Etruria | a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria. |
| Exedra | a semicircular niche, often used as a seat of honor or place for a statue |
| Forum (plural=fora) | a public square or market used for judicial and other business |
| Forum Romanum | part of the centralised area around which the ancient Roman civilization developed. |
| Frigidarium | the cold-water baths in a Roman themae |
| Hemicycle | a semicircular room or recess |
| Hypocaust | a hallow space under the floor of an ancient Roman building, into which hot air was sent for heating a room or bath |
| Hypogeum | an underground chamber |
| Imperial Fora | consist of a series of monumental fora (public squares), constructed in Rome over a period of one and half centuries, between 46 BC and 113 AD. |
| Keystone | the central voussoir of an arch |
| Latium | an ancient region in west central Italy, inhabited by Latini people |
| Nave | the western arm of a basilican church |
| Necropolis | a cemetery usually a large one belonging to a city |
| Opus incertum | Roman walls built of irregularly shaped stones facing a concrete core |
| Opus quadratum | a Roman wall built of squared masonry |
| Podium | a small platform on which a person can stand to be seen by an audience |
| Pozzolana | a volcanic ash containing silicon and aluminum, which will harden as a cement when ground fine and mixed with lime and water |
| Pronaous | the vestibule or antechamber to the shrine room (naos) of a Greek temple |
| Pseudoperipteral | a building with free standing columns in the front (colonnaded portico), but the columns along the sides are engaged in the peripheral walls of the building. |
| Pumice | a very light and porous volcanic rock formed when a gas-rich froth of a gassy lava solidifies rapidly |
| radial vaults | vaults that extend from a center point? |
| Relieving arch | an arch which encloses an arch or a window or other opening. It helps relieve some of the weight on the arch of the opening. |
| Spandrel | a wall surface, ornamented or unornamented, between major architectural elements such as windows or arches |
| Stadium of Domitian | located to the north of the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy. The Stadium was commissioned around 80 AD by the Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus as a gift to the people of Rome, and was used mostly for athletic contests. |
| Stucco | fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or molding into architectural decoration |
| Taberna (shop) | a single room shop covered by a barrel vault within great indoor markets of ancient Rome. |
| Triumphal arch | In Roman architecture, a gateway structure, with one or three arched openings, built to celebrate the return of a conquering army |
| Tuscan "Doric" | An order based on Etruscan architecture, employing unfluted columns and simplified capital |
| Velarium | a large awning of a type used in ancient Rome to cover a theater or amphitheater as protection against the weather |
| Vitruvius | Roman architect and military engineer |
| Voissoir | A wedge-shapped masonry unit set to form an arch |
| Volcanic tuff | a type of rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. |
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