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porta principalis dextra
[Co].
[Co].
Latin name for the gate at the right-hand end of the main transverse street (
via principalis
) of a Roman fort or camp as viewed from the front of the headquarters building, or from the general's tent.
via principalis
) of a Roman fort or camp as viewed from the front of the headquarters building, or from the general's tent.
porta principalis sinistra
[Co].
[Co].
Latin name for the gate at the left-hand end of the transverse street (
via principalis
) of a Roman fort or camp as viewed from the front of the headquarters building, or from the general's tent.
via principalis
) of a Roman fort or camp as viewed from the front of the headquarters building, or from the general's tent.
Portchester ware
[Ar].
[Ar].
Type of late Saxon pottery manufactured on the coast of central southern England.
port-hole slab
[Co].
[Co].
A distinctive kind of entrance to a burial chamber, often in a chambered tomb, comprising either a single stone or a pair of stones set side by side, in which a round or sometimes square access hole has been cut. Where a pair of stones is used each has a cut-out in one side which when placed together form the port-hole. Some of the best examples are known amongst
COTSWOLD–SEVERN
long barrows of western Britain and the dolmens of the northwest Caucasus in southern Russia.
COTSWOLD–SEVERN
long barrows of western Britain and the dolmens of the northwest Caucasus in southern Russia.
portico
[Co].
[Co].
An entrance porch with a colonnade.
portway
[De].
[De].
Posidonius
[Na].
[Na].
Philosopher and historian, born
c.
135 bc in Apamea, Syria, but afterwards settling in Rhodes. His principal work, a
History
, occupied 52 books but is no longer extant. Fragments do, however, survive in the borrowings of later writers including Caesar , Strabo , Diodorus , and Athenaeus , whose observations on the Celts are largely based upon Posidonius' ethnography. Posidonius died in
c.
50 bc.
c.
135 bc in Apamea, Syria, but afterwards settling in Rhodes. His principal work, a
History
, occupied 52 books but is no longer extant. Fragments do, however, survive in the borrowings of later writers including Caesar , Strabo , Diodorus , and Athenaeus , whose observations on the Celts are largely based upon Posidonius' ethnography. Posidonius died in
c.
50 bc.
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