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south and east . Once one of the richest towns of Roman Gaul , the city is famous for its many Roman remains , which are mostly in an excellent state of preservation . The vast am- phitheatre , probably built in the 1st century AD to ...
south and east . Once one of the richest towns of Roman Gaul , the city is famous for its many Roman remains , which are mostly in an excellent state of preservation . The vast am- phitheatre , probably built in the 1st century AD to ...
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... Roman type of con- crete wall construction with facing , most com- mon in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC . Roman wall construction techniques 19 : 302a opus interassile , a metalwork technique de- veloped in Rome and widely used during ...
... Roman type of con- crete wall construction with facing , most com- mon in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC . Roman wall construction techniques 19 : 302a opus interassile , a metalwork technique de- veloped in Rome and widely used during ...
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... Roman , early Christian , and Byzantine mosaics . Evolving from the supplementary use of stone tesserae to achieve colour intensity in earlier pebble mosaics , opus tessellatum came to be used for entire mosaic floors in most areas of ...
... Roman , early Christian , and Byzantine mosaics . Evolving from the supplementary use of stone tesserae to achieve colour intensity in earlier pebble mosaics , opus tessellatum came to be used for entire mosaic floors in most areas of ...
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