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A Study in Architectural Iconography: Kaisersaal and the Imperial Cult
The Art Bulletin, 1982Halls in Roman baths and gymnasia with rich multi-story Facades have been associated by scholars with the Imperial Cult and called Kaisersale. By studying their architectural origins and symbolic content, this article shows that indeed they were religious places, honoring the Emperor and dedicated to his cult, but not official seats of the cult like ...
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Heliopolis in Egyptian Literary Texts: Sacred Architecture and Cult Activities
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Morphologies of Sacra Privata in the Roman House: Architecture, Furnishings, Cults
2023The article proposes an examination of the concept of private sacredness in the Roman world, understood as that set of actions, creeds, and cultic and ritual practices enacted in the domestic sphere by the inhabitants of urban and country homes. Through the enunciation of the elements necessary for the study of this phenomenon, a number of questions ...
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Metaphysics of Natural Light in Cult Architecture
Light & EngineeringThis article is devoted to the use of light in the architecture, and especially of cult architecture. For many centuries, people have considered the light of the sun and the flame of a candle to be the best ways to glorify God. The culture of light and its symbolic significance in cult architecture have passed through the centuries.
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Architectural finds and founder cult evidence in the Heroon at Orgame
CaieteARA. Arhitectură. Restaurare. Arheologie, 2017The article provides a preliminary description of Late-Classical-Hellenistic roof tiles found in the offerings trench of tumulus TA95 at Orgame (Argamum) and suggests the existence of a roofing structure in close connection with it. The identification of the tile types was complicated in light of their fragmentary state.
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Beyond Middleware and QoS – Service-Oriented Architectures – Cult or Culture?
2005State-of-the-art middleware such as CORBA, RMI or .NET Remoting represents a stack of interoperability layers to connect different islands of code. While all these existing solutions are widely used for the development of commercial and industrial software, they still lack essential features: First of all, there is no accepted middleware standard to ...
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THE “TWO-GATES“ MODEL IN THE THRACIAN CULT ARCHITECTURE
Collection of papers from the Harmony in Diversity Conference Sofia, December 10th, 2025Most Thracian cult buildings under mounds share similar compositional scheme of one or more spaces, following each other on a horizontal axis, leading to a main chamber. The access to the building is usually through one single entrance. However, in two cases – in the building under Shushmanets mound and in the one near Pomorie, two separate openings ...
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The architectural framework for the cults of saints: Some scottish examples
2007This chapter presents an overview of some Scottish churches which had more specific relationships with saints. It considers the ways in which the design of those buildings may be conditioned by a wish to give architectural emphasis to the saints' cults, as well as the means by which structured access to the main foci of the cults was organized.
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Architecture and the assertion of the cult of relics in milan’s public spaces
2004After Trent Borromeo reintroduced the practices of setting up columns with crosses on top at cross-roads, processions for the Sacred Nail and splendid translationes of important local saints. These initiatives are part of ferocious ideological battles on the validity of the cross as the supreme Catholic icon and on the relics of saints as intercessors.
R. V. Schofield, G. Ceriani Sebregondi
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