Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 208
terior ar-chitecture; but given ascarcity of marble and ofgood building stone withan abundance of soft tufaand of pozzolana forthe making of cement-stucco; given also the ne-cessity of a rapid re-building of almost anentire town after theearthquake of 63, and itwould be hard to imaginea more… … Fig. 202. Mosaic Floor Patterxs. ^losaic floors were al-most all of Opus Grecanicum, laid in small tesserae ofmarble and other stone or even tile, in patterns whichfrequently suggest rug-designs. Each floor has a bor-der and either an all-over patterned field (see Fig. 189),a central medallion, or…
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