A Handbook of Ornament

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A Handbook of Ornament
Franz Sales Meyer
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The plan of the Antique Altar is usually triangular, quadrangular, or circular. Tbe material is generally marble. Its top is a table-like Slab, gene- rally with a hollow to contain tbe sacrificial . Fire. The decoration was of symbolic character. Skulls of animals. Festoons of fruit, votive Wreaths, Figures of the Gods, Genii, and similar creations, were used almost always. The triangular Altar was often used as the base of the Antique State-candelabrum; e. G. The altar represented on fig. 5, w...hich is the base of a Candelabrum.
The so-called "Altars" of the Christian religion have nothing in The Altar. — The Tripod. 379 common with those of the Antique; and they do not fidl within the scope of our work.
Plate 221. The Axtar.
1. Assyrian, triangular sacrificial stone.
2. Assyrian, round sacrificial stone.
3. Assyrian, sacrificial slab, from a relief in the British Museum.
4. Roman, three-sided Altar, like a number of examples, differing little from one-another, in the museums in London, Paris, &c 5.


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