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Creation Year
1978
Image ID
DH.074
Subcollection
DH: Delphi
Abstract
Brick masonry in the Roman Marketplace. This brickwork mixed small stones in to fill gaps, but would have been covered with a stucco exterior, hiding the internal structure.
Description
Roman masonry in the easternmost stall of the Roman Marketplace, just outside the entrance to the Sanctuary. Baly identifies this as Opus Reticulatum due to the diamond patterns in the center, although that style is typically composed of cut stone diamonds, rather than brick shapes. As was common with Roman walls, the structural brickwork would have been covered in a layer of diamond plaster, seen in the fragment in the center-left of the niche.
Image Notes
Creation date unknown. Photograph processed July 1978. Notes written on the slide or index: Opus reticulatum (once covered in marble) in Roman market.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Delfoi, Greece
Keywords
Masonry, Brick, Roman, Byzantine Period, Fourth Century AD, Roman Marketplace at Delphi
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