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caveae (audience spaces, theater spaces, ... Components (hierarchy name)) |
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Note: Tiered, semicircular seating areas in ancient, especially Roman, theaters and amphitheaters. |
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caveae (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
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caveae (Spanish,AD,U,SN)
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caveae (Dutch-P,D,U,U)
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cavea (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
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cavea (Spanish-P,D,U,SN)
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cavea (Dutch,AD,U,U)
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Caveae (C,U,German,D,PN)
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Cavea (C,U,German-P,AD,SN)
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Facet/Hierarchy Code: V.PJ |
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Dutch ..... De in rijen oplopende, halfcirkelvormige zitruimten in antieke theaters en amfitheaters. |
German ..... Stufen- und halbkreisförmiger Zuschauerbereich eines antiken, insbesondere römischen Theaters und Amphitheaters. |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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[CDBP-SNPC Preferred, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP] |
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AAT-Ned (1994-) |
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Bieber, History of the Greek and Roman Theater (1961) IND |
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Harris, Historic Architecture Sourcebook (1977) 100 |
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Koch, Europese bouwstijlen (1988) |
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Kostof, Castillo, and Tobias, History of Architecture (1995) GLOS, tiered semicirc. seating area in ancient Roman theater |
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Paniagua, Vocabulario Básico de Arquitectura (1998) 93 |
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Richardson, Pompeii (1988) GLOS, part of theat. or amphith. for spectators, with seating. |
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Sturgis, Dictionary of Architecture and Building (1901) |
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Ward-Perkins, Roman Imperial Architecture (1985) GLOS |
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961) |
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