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 253
construction, with an ornamental surface re-semliling the meshes of a net. Opus Spicatum, R. Hening-bone masonry. Fig. 506. Pseudisodomum opus. Opus Pseud-iso-domum, Gr. (lit. quasi-equalstructure). A Greek method of building inwhich the courses are (l) parallel and unequal, … Fig. io7 Gate of Lions at Mycenae.Iseudisodomum opus. but regular among themselves, as in Fig. 506 ;or (2) irregular altogether, as in the Gate ofLions at Mycenoe, Fig. 507 (or in Fig. 504).
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