A puteal (Latin: from puteus ("well") – pl.: putealia) is a classical wellhead built around a water well's access opening. The enclosure keeps people from...
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The Guilford Puteal is a Pentelic marble Ancient Roman sculpture. Its name derives from its use as a puteal or wellhead, and one of its previous owners...
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The Puteal Scribonianum (Scribonian Puteal) or Puteal Libonis (Puteal of Libo) was a structure in the Forum Romanum in Ancient Rome. A puteal was a classical...
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ISBN 978-1421932125. Carpenter, Rhys (1925). "The Fates of the Madrid Puteal". American Journal of Archaeology. 29 (2): 117–134. doi:10.2307/497894....
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feriae); on account of him then they toss wreaths into fountains and garland puteals" (Fontanalia a Fonte, quod is dies feriae eius; ab eo tum et in fontes...
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a structure built by C. Aurelius Cotta around 80 BC near the so-called Puteal Libonis, a bidental used for sacred oaths before trials. After the funeral...
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depicting Livia as Diana and Octavian as Mercury, (Rome, 30–25 BC) Guildford Puteal from Corinth, Greece (30–10 BC) Bronze head of Augustus from Meroë in Sudan...
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(arca) and sometimes a bust of the master of the house. The cylindrical puteal (a wellhead) gave access to the water cistern fed by water seeping through...
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sculpture of Jupiter, holding a thunderbolt in his right hand; detail from the Moncloa Puteal (Roman, 2nd century), National Archaeological Museum, Madrid...
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consecrated the Puteal Scribonianum often mentioned by ancient writers, which was located in the forum close to the Arcus Fabianus. It was called Puteal as it was...
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Praetor for Foreigners (Praetor Peregrinus) Well-head of Libo (Puteal Libonus or Puteal Scribonianum) Statues of numerous other gods and men S. Maria Antiqua...
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The complementarity of the epithets is shown in inscriptions found on puteals or bidentals reciting either fulgur Dium conditum or fulgur Summanum conditum...
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general the yield strength of the materials range from 36000 to 75000 psi. Puteal — Water well head Pumpjack American Petroleum Institute Drilling rig (petroleum)...
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Independence Notara (first name unknown), onetime owner of the Guilford Puteal John Notaras (1939-2013), Australian businessman with interests in retail...
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Charles Townley in the Park St. Gallery by Zoffany, 1782, Burnley. Top, on the bookcase, the Townley Vase. Right, on a puteal, the Townley Venus....
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cistern below. Water for household use could be drawn up in buckets via the puteal (a lidded cylinder set over a hole in the top of the cistern as a wellhead)...
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holding chamber below ground. A circular stone opening protected with a puteal allows easy access by bucket and rope to this private, filtered and naturally...
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(Livy 1.36.5); the whetstone and razor were buried in the same place, and a puteal placed over them. According to Dionysius it was Tarquinius Priscus who set...
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the earth where the lightning hit, as opposed to traditional cremation. A puteal ("wellhead"), one or sometimes more, was then placed on the spot of burned...
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tetrastyle, hexastyle, octastyle, decastyle Post and lintel Pronaos Prostyle Puteal Quoin – masonry blocks in a wall's corner Roof – List of Greco-Roman roofs...
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Marbles Esquiline Treasure Euphorbos plate Farnese Diadumenos Guilford Puteal Harpy Tomb Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano Isis Tomb Jennings Dog Lion...
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Marbles Esquiline Treasure Euphorbos plate Farnese Diadumenos Guilford Puteal Harpy Tomb Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano Isis Tomb Jennings Dog Lion...
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Koch-Brinkmann. In addition, the decor of a Roman well of the first century (Putéal de la Moncloa) preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain...
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as the Pueal Scribonianum or Puteal Libonis, frequently depicted on their coins. So called because it resembled a puteal, or wellhead, the structure enclosed...
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Aldaia Mosaic of Medusa and the seasons from Palencia Hypnos from Algorós Puteal from La Moncloa [es] The halls corresponding to the Late Antiquity (1st...
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or temple. The large erect penis on the statue of Priapus or Pan atop a puteal in 'The Cult of Priapus' is derived from examples in classical sculpture...
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concerned with lightning bolts, bidental being both the technical term for the puteal, the hole (resembling a well) left by strikes onto the ground and for the...
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Marbles Esquiline Treasure Euphorbos plate Farnese Diadumenos Guilford Puteal Harpy Tomb Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano Isis Tomb Jennings Dog Lion...
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regolare Floor pavement with regular punctuations of colored tesselae. Puteal Circular stone enclosure, usually surrounding the mouth of a well to prevent...
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several torsos of fauns and Venus, a flower vase worked in the form of a puteal and decorated with ivy and flowers; a broken altar (...), the lower part...
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