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Tripartite
Ubeyd evlerinde ve erken Mezopotamya tapınaklarında kullanılan mimari plan, uzun bir merkezi oda ile çevrilidir ve daha küçük odaları bulunur.
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Cloister
Bir Roma evinin atriyumu gibi, üstü kapalı yürüyüş yollarıyla çevrili bir tür avlu veya dörtgen. Genellikle bir tarafı kiliseyle sınırlanan manastırlara bağlanırlar; ayrıca katedral kiliselerine veya kolejlere bağlıdırlar. Duvarlar genellikle fresklerle ve bir çeşme veya ağaçlar içeren avlu ile s...
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Impluvium
Roma mimarisinde, çatıdaki bir açıklığın (compluvium) altında atriyumda bulunan, yağmur suyunu toplamak için bir sarnıç veya tank.
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Stibadium
The stibadium (plural: stibadia) is a later form of the Roman lectus triclinaris, the reclining seat used by diners in the triclinium. Originally, the lecti were arranged in a group of three in a semi-circle. The stibadium was a single semi-circular couch, fitting up to a dozen people, which repl...
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Stibadium
Stibadium, triclinium'da yemek yiyenler tarafından kullanılan yatar koltuk olan Roma lectus triclinaris'in daha sonraki bir şeklidir.
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Stibadium
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Anathyrosis
Yunan mimarisinde, iki bitişik bloğun veya sütun tamburlarının merkezini oyarak ve blokların sadece kenarlarda temas etmesini sağlayarak eşleştirme tekniği.
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Aphrodisias Basilica
In the later first century AD, major construction continued probably without a break. The extravagantly decorated Sebasteion was the main building project in the city in the mid-first century AD and had been finished in c. AD 60 in the reign of Nero. Work soon began on another huge monumental bui...
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Aphrodisias Basilica
M.S. 1. yüzyılın sonlarında şehirdeki inşaat çalışmaları muhtemelen aralıksız olarak devam etmiştir. Abartılı bir süslemeye sahip Sebasteion, M.S. 1. yüzyılın ortasında kentin başlıca inşaat projesidir ve M.S. 60 yılı civarında Nero döneminde tamamlanmıştır. Hemen ardından bir başka anıtsal yapı ...
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Pillar Crypt
Minos mimarisinde bir veya iki sütunlu bir bodrum odası. Bazıları kutsal sembollerle süslenmiştir. ...
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Thermae
Roma mimarisinde, farklı sıcaklıklara sahip odaları ve egzersiz alanları olan bir hamam kompleksi. Antik Romalılar için halka açık banyo, dinlenme ve sosyal aktivite için tasarlanmış böyle bir yapı kompleksidir. ...
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Cornice
Bir binanın duvarının ya da başka bir öğesinin tepesinden dışa doğru çıkan süsleme kalıbıdır. Saçak altı kısımları akan sudan korumak amacıyla, yatay çıkıntılı silmelerdir. Bu anlamda rölyef bezemeler ile süslenmiş bir tür saçak sayılabilir. Klasik mimarinin bir öğesi olan korniş ise, bir dizi sü...
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Opus Testaceum
İmparatorluk döneminde duvar örmek için açık ara en yaygın malzeme olan tuğla ve kiremit kaplı betonu kullanan bir Roma inşaat tekniği....
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Echinus
Mimaride, başlığın bir bölümünü oluşturan klasik sütun millerinin tepesi. Dor düzeninde, abaküsün hemen altındaki dışbükey bir bölümdür. İyonik düzende, başlığın kıvrımları arasındadır ve genellikle bir yumurta-dart deseni ile süslenir.
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Opus Mixtum
Geç Roma İmparatorluğu döneminde, özellikle Diocletianus (M.S. 284-305) döneminde popüler olan, tuğla ve taş kaplama karışımını kullanan bir Roma inşaat tekniği.
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Aeolic Order
Kuzeybatı Türkiye ve Midilli Adası'nın mimari düzeni, yayılan bir palmetle ayrılmış iki volütten oluşan süslü bir başlığa sahiptir. Ekinus volütlerin altındadır ve genellikle nilüfer yapraklarından oluşur. ...
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Library of Pergamon
Around 197-159 BCE rulers of Pergamum (Pergamon; now Bergama in Turkey) founded a major library. Whether this was in competition with the Alexandrian Library, or just a worthy independent effort, remains the subject of speculation. This project, and the vast buildings constructed for the purpose,...
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Library of Pergamon
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Sinekkale
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Gerger Castle Samos II
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Besni Kalesi-Octacuscum
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Aphrodisias Basilica
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Doseme Bogazi (Via Sebaste)
The ancient road at Doseme Bogazi ("paved passage" in Turkish) dates back to the Hellenistic period, which is when the road posts and several watch towers were built. The second phase of the road is dated to the Roman period.
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Doseme Bogazi (Via Sebaste)
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Wealden House
A type of timber-framed building, dating from the 15th century; many surviving examples are concentrated in southeast England. The Wealden house has a distinctive design in which the central open hall is flanked at both ends by multi-storeyed wings; in the purest examples the end storeys are jett...
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Wealden House
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Veruiamium
Present-day St. Albans, Hertfordshire, southeast England. Normally reckoned to be the third largest Roman town in Britain and situated astride Watling Street, which it spanned with monumental gateways. Starting as a small fort near Verlamio, the capital of Tasciovanus, King of the Castuvellauni, ...
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Veruiamium
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Varves
A form of sedimentation which takes place in lakes marginal to ice-sheets and glaciers. Seasonal fluctuations in particle size and speed of sedimentation take place. During the winter, ice melting is very slow, melt-water streams do not contain much water, and they flow slowly, carrying little ma...
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Varves
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Usatovo Culture
The type site for a regional group derived from the Late Tripolye culture (Tripolye C2), distributed in the Odessa region of the south Russian steppe zone. Dated to the mid-3rd millennium bc, the barrow cemetery at Usatovo was one of the richest in the steppe zone and lay next to a stone-built se...
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Usatovo Culture
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Uqair
Tell site 80 km south of Baghdad, excavated by an Iraqi team in the early 1940s. These excavations uncovered a settlement of the Ubaid period and a temple of the Uruk period. This temple has a tripartite plan and is very similar to the White Temple in the Anu sanctuary at Uruk itself. It is disti...
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Uqair
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Acanthus
Conventionalized representation of the leaf of the Acanthus spinosus plant, found on the lower parts of Corinthian and Composite capitals, and also used for enrichment of various elements in Classical architecture.
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Abacus
A calculating table or frame, specifically one in which balls slide upon wires, used for the mechanical solution of arithmetical problems.
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Sui Xian
[Sui-hsien]. district in Hubei province, China. A rich burial of the late 5th century bc excavated at Sui Xian Leigudun in 1978 is identified by inscribed bronzes found in it as the tomb of one Marquis Yi of the little-known state of Zeng. A dated inscribed bell contributed to the funerary goods ...
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Sui Xian
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Sousse
Islamic Sousse [Roman Hadrume-tum] on the Tunisian coast was still a minor settlement in 821-2, when the Aghlabid ruler Ziyadat Allah built the ribat, a stronghold for volunteers dedicated to the holy war against the infidel. It is a square fort, 39 metres across, with towers (one of which is a m...
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Sousse
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Siraf
In the 9th and 10th centuries Siraf on the Persian Gulf was a leading entrepôt for the maritime trade which brought commodities and luxury goods from South and Southeast Asia, East Africa and the Red Sea to Baghdad and other cities of the Middle East. Despite torrid summers, poor soil and little ...
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Siraf
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Shaft Tombs (China)
The vertical shaft tomb characteristic of Bronze Age China (the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties) has two distinctive features. First, its walls step inward on all four sides, part way down the shaft, forming a shelf or ercengtai. Second, beneath the coffin or wooden burial chamber in the bottom ...
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Shaft Tombs (China)
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Seven Wonders Of The World
A list was made in the Hellenistic period of what were then considered to be the seven greatest wonders of the world. These were normally: (1) the Great Pyramids of Egypt; (2) the Gardens of Babylon (New Babylonian period, 626-539 bc); (3) the Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus (4th century bc)...
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Seven Wonders Of The World
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San Vincenzo Al Volturno
An important Benedictine monastery in Central Italy, founded early in the 8th century and probably at its largest in the 9th century. San Vincenzo was sacked by Arabs in 881 and the monastery was abandoned. The site was later reoccupied on a smaller scale, and eventually the monastery was taken o...
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San Vincenzo Al Volturno
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St Gall Plan
A remarkable Carolingian document, probably formulated after the Council of Inden in 816 and then sent by the Abbot of Reichenau to Abbot Gozbert of St Gall. The plan, drawn in ink on parchment, is an architect’s drawing for the rebuilding of the monastic complex. The layout is dominated by the l...
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St Gall Plan
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