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 13
rs 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 symbolizetlie animal revolution of the sun. A figureoften… … Fig. 3. A Lictor with the fasces, wearing the abolla. Absidiole. Diminutive of apse, and thus usedto denote a small apse terminating a lateral nave,while tlie a]ise closes the central or chief nave.(See Absis.) Absis or Apse, R. (cul/ls, a bow or \ault). Anyenclosure of semicircular form…
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