Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (514 page)

Greek god who was eventually brought into the retinue of Dionysus, son of Hermes, who was born with the legs, horns, and beard of a goat. He was considered to be the protector of flocks and agriculture, particularly the vine and the olive. Pan taught the art of bee-keeping.

 
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A subdivision of the
YANGSHAO
Neolithic culture of China known mainly from cemeteries excavated in the hills of the upper Yellow River Basin in Kanso Province. Distinctive ceramics include large globular urns decorated with bold spirals and curvilinear designs painted in red and black.

 
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1
A temple dedicated to a range of gods.
2
[De] A group of related gods or deities.

 
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A classical Roman temple built in the heart of Rome, Italy, by Agrippa in 27–25 bc, rebuilt by Domitian, and finally reconstructed
c.
ad 118–25 by Hadrian. The Hadrianic temple consists of a massive domed rotunda lit by a central aperture open to the sky. The building owes its survival to the fact that it was converted into a Christian church in ad 608.
[Sum.: W. L. MacDonald , 1976,
The Pantheon: design, meaning and progeny
. London: Allan Lane]

 
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Literally, ‘the Almighty’, nearly always the subject of a mosaic or fresco dominating the interior of a church from its central position at the height of the dome.

 
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The study of ancient writing on
PAPYRUS
.

 
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