10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMPLECTON»
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emplecton in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
emplecton and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria
107 filled." Baldus, in his Lexicon,. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV. Note. —
Emplecton Masonry. I am aware that this interpretation of emplecton differs from
that generally adopted, especially by Italian writers on ancient architecture, who
take it to ...
2
The Antonine Wall Report: Being an Account of the ...
Tertium est emplecton tantummodo frontibus politis : reliqua fortuito collo- cant. *
See pp. 28-34, supra. There is another structure called Emplecton which even
our rustics use. Of this, the facing stones are squared ; the rest, in their natural
state ...
3
Topographical and Panoramic Survey of the Campagna Di Roma , ...
To this manner of building he givesa Greek name, Emplecton, as the Greeks still
used it in his time as well as the Isodomum, a mode of construction more
laborious; and the appellation Emplecton, made use of by him, is-derived from
the verb ...
Sickler (Friedrich Carl Ludwig), 1818
4
American Journal of Archaeology
The kernel of the wall is composed of an emplecton, or rubbish-work of the most
ill-matched elements, — pebbles, stones, broken pieces of marble and pottery,
architectural fragments, — all bound in abundant and exceedingly viscous mortar
...
5
Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, ...
Vitruvius assures us, that in his time this was the mode of building most
commonly practised. Many edifices of this construction still remain. The Romans
imitated the emplecton of the Greeks, but they did not execute it with the same
care or the ...
6
A Journey in Carniola, Italy, And France, In The Years 1817, ...
These courses arebound together by large squared blocks of piperino,§ placed
at a distance from each other. The exterior is also composed of large squared
stones. This kind of masonry, called emplecton by Vitruvius and PliMOLES ...
W ..... A ..... Cadell, 1820
7
Travels in Greece and Albania
Tertium est EMPLECTON, tantummodo frontibus politis : reliqua fortuilo collocant
: alternas coagmentationes fieri, ut commissures antecedentium medii Iapides
obtineant, necessarium est : in medio quo- qne pariete, si res patiatur : sin minus
...
Thomas Smart Hughes, 1830
8
The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ...
whole front, it is better to suppose they were made for some purpose of
sepulchral vaults during the middle nges, and consequently have nothing to do
with the original formation of the building. The mass was formed ' ad emplecton,'
but no ...
9
Ancient Building in Cyprus
Certainly it appears to be the type of masonry which in later days Vitruvius
referred to as Emplecton (intertwined, plaited together) but whether this name
originally derived emplecton from its aspect or its structure is not certain (ABADY
IV 1987 ...
10
Elements of Civil Engineering
The Emplecton of the Romans was a wall similar to one of modern ashlar facing,
except that the wrought facing was carried up on both faces instead of one side of
the wall only, while the central part was backed up or filled in by rubble-work ...
