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, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 100
l) A term denoting anything we shoidd now callan unguent, but especially the salve collyrium,which was a liquid medicament. (2) Collyriawas a term applied to Egyptian vases of terra-cotta, with or without enamel; to small quad-rangular boxes of wood or pottery; and, lastly, tosmall cylindrical… … Fig. iSi. Roman Plebeian wearing the Colobiuni ache; and inscriptions indicating these usesmay be read upon vessels of this kind. (Fig. 180). Colne, (). E. A basket or coop. Colobiuni (from KoKo^bs, docked or curtailed).A tunic with short sleeves, which scarcelycovered the upper part of the arm. At…
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