Opus reticulatum (also known as reticulate work) is a facing used for concrete walls in Roman architecture from about the first century BCE to the early...
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superseded by opus reticulatum. Vitruvius, in De architectura (Ten books on engineering), favours opus incertum, deriding opus reticulatum as more expensive...
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considered as the burial tower of Herod's relatives. It is known as the opus reticulatum monument, and is mentioned twice by Josephus (War 5.108, 507), as "Herod's...
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mix of opus reticulatum and at the angles and the sides of opus latericium. It can also consist of opus vittatum and opus testaceum. Opus mixtum was also...
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of brickwork reinforced every 80 cm and do not appear to have used opus reticulatum, suggesting a 1st c. AD or later date. The building was structured...
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caementicium. Opus reticulatum was the dominant form of wall construction in the Imperial era. In the time of the architectural writer Vitruvius, opus latericium...
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Roman bridge (redirect from Opus pontis)
construction techniques called opus vittatum and opus mixtum, the latter alternating rows of bricks in opus reticulatum. Examples are bridges in Carmona...
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squared stone of the same height Opus reticulatum – Roman masonry in diamond-shaped bricks of tuff, covering a core of opus caementicium Roman concrete –...
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isodomum - Opus latericium - Opus mixtum - Opus quadratum - Opus reticulatum - Opus spicatum - Opus vittatum - Oriented strand board - Oxy-fuel welding and...
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Magna Mater (recorded by Ovid), parts of which remain in Augustan-era opus reticulatum, although most of the remains belong to a Hadrianic restoration. A...
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