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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TABULARIUM (tabula, board, picture, also archives, records)

TABULARIUM (tabula, See also:
BOARD (O. Eng. bord)
board, picture, also archives, records) , the architectural See also:

TERM

term given to the See also:

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

Record See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in See also:

ancient See also:

Rome, which was built by Q. Lutatius See also:

CATULUS

Catulus, the conqueror of the See also:

CIMBRI

Cimbri. It was situated on the See also:

west See also:

side of the See also:

FORUM (Lat. from foris, " out of doors ")

Forum Romanum, and its See also:

GREAT

great See also:

CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med. Lat. corridorium, a " running-place," from currere, to run)

corridor, 220 ft. See also:

long, raised 50 ft. above the forum on a massive substructure, is still partly preserved. This corridor was lighted through a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

ARCHES, COURT OF

arches divided by semi-detached columns of the Doric See also:

order, the earliest example of this class of decoration, which in the See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre of See also:

MARCELLUS

Marcellus, the Colosseum, and all the great amphitheatres throughout the See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

EMPIRE

empire constituted the decorative treatment of the See also:

wall See also:

SURFACE

surface and gave See also:

scale to the structure. Traces of an upper corridor with semi-detached columns of the Ionic order have been found in the Tabularium, but this structure was much changed in the 13th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace of the Senators was built.

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