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 (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 13
hers derive it fromthe Hebrew, or the Coptic, while others againrecognize in it only a numerical sign, the lettersof which, added together, would give the number 365, or the number of days that make up theyear, and in this case abraxas would symbolizethe annual revolution of the sun. A figureoften… … Fig. 3. A Lictor with tlic fusees, wearing the abolla. Absidiole. Diminutive of ^/.r^, and thus usedto denote a small a]ise terminating a lateral nave,while the apse closes the central or chief nave.(See Aiisis.) Absis or Apse. R. (a^-ls, a bow or vault). Anyenclosure of semicircular form…
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