| Title: | Antiquities |
| Original Title: | Antiquités |
| Volume and Page: | Plates vol. 1 (1765) |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Ann-Marie Ashworth. Architecture in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Scolar Press, 1993. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Antiquities." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.360>. Trans. of "Antiquités," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1 (plates). Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Antiquities." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.360 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Antiquités," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1 (plates) (Paris, 1765). |
Plate I: Antiques
Figure 1. The temple of Jupiter the vengeful or the Pantheon of Agrippa.
Figure 2. Adrian's tomb.
Plate II: Antiques
Figure 1. The amphitheatre of the Vespasians famous for the combats of animals and gladiators.
Plate III: Antiques
Figure 1 and 2. Arch of Constantine.
Figure 3 and 4. Arch of Septimus Severus.
Plate IV: Antiques
Figure 1. Circus of Caracalla, constructed outside the town, on the Appian Way, in the neighbourhood of the tomb of Metellus.
Figure 2. Theatre constructed by Augustus in honour of Marcellus, son of Augustus's sister.
Figure 3. The Forum or market of Merva: it is also known by the name of transitorium, or passage.
Plate V: Antiques
Figure 1. Column of Antonin erected by Sixte-Quint; it is 165 feet high.
Figure 2. Thermae or baths of Diocletian constructed on Mount Viminal.
Plate VI: Antiques
Figure 1. Trajan's Column. It is of marble, is 128 feet high without base and 140 feet with base; it is made from 24 stones.
Figure 2. The building constructed under the name of Janus quadrifrons, or Janus of the four faces. It is used to decorate the market or forum Boarium; some have mistaken it for the temple of War and Peace.
Plate VII: Antiques
Figure 1. The Septizone of Severus: it was built between Mount Palatin and Mount Coelius; it was the tomb of the emperor and of his children.
Figure 2. Ruins of Septizone.
Figure 1. 2. and 3. Rings.
Plate VIII: Antiques
Figure 1 and 2. Bracelets.
Figure 3. 4. 5. and 6. Ear pendants.
Figure 7. 8. and 9. Amulets.
Figure 10. Lockets of young Romans.
Figure 11 and 12. Head dress.
Figure 13. 14. 15. and 16. Shoes.
Plate IX: Antiques
Figure 1 and 2. Buckles.
Figure 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. and 8. Military ensigns.
Figure 9. Albo Galerus.
Figure 10 and 11. Amulets.
Figure 12. Censer.
Figure 13. Patera.
Figure 14. Apex.
Figure 15. Tripod.
Plate X: Antiques
Figure 1. Profericulum.
Figure 2. Sempulum or sempurium.
Figure 3. Capides, capulae, capedines, capedunculae, antiquities, etc.
Plate XI: Antiques
Figure 1. St Peter's, Rome.
Figure 2. Ancient church: Plan of an ancient church with its exhedras. 1. Propylaeum or entrance hall, or the main entrance to the precinct or forecourt of the church. 2. Mesaulium or atrium, or second precinct or court which leads from the first [entrance] or from the propylaeum or from the entrance hall to the church. 3. Fountain of water inserted into the middle of the second precinct; it was called cantharus or phiala. One would was one's face and hands there before prayer. 4. Porticos and cloisters inserted around the second precinct, and called marthex exterior; it was the palce of the weeping statues - locus lugentium. 5. The main door of the church. 6. The two side [adjacent] doors. 7. Doors open at the north and at the south. 8. Porticos and cloisters inserted at the north and south of the church. 9. Place of the catechumens and the auditors [distant congragation] - locus audientium. There were the Jews and the Gentiles; this part was called ferula or narthex interior. 10. Place of the prosterned, or of the third of the penitents before the ambo or the rood screen. 11. Ambo or rood screen, or the place where readings were delivered, which were also called lectern and pulpit. 12. Anterior and posterior stairways of the rood screen. 13. Cloisters or porticos, or interior peristyles for men. 14. Cloisters or porticos, or peristyles for women; this place was called cathecumenia or hyperoa. 15. The balustrade. 16. Sanctuary, also called bema or the choir or the chancel. 17. Communion altar. 18. Baldachin which covered the altar, which was also called the pyrcus or ciborium. 19. Bishop's stall. 20. Priests' stall. The totality of the stalls was called synthronos or confessus, or tribunal or bema. 21. The small sacristy, also called secretarium or diaconium minus. 22. [Another] edifice called prothesis or paratorium, or the relics room, or another sacristy, the large sacristy or the place of the offerings. 23. The sacrophylacium or the diaronium magnum, or the place where the sacred vases were stored. 24. The baptistry. 25. The fonts. 26. The presbytery, the schools, the libraries. 27. Periphery of the sanctuary called peribolos. 28. Exhedras or exterior buildings. 29. The chevet of the church; the arcade which formed its opening was called apsis; the upper part, in vault or recess form, was called concha.