In the Mausoleum of Augustus a mound of earth planted with trees crowned a similar circular base of marble on a podium 220 feet square, now buried.
Dobrynin stood behind the podium and signaled for quiet, wanting desperately to get started.
The basement of the podium has been preserved, we may assume, in its more salient features.
The podium façade is oriental, for it was used in Assyria and in Persia.
Podium of the altar and of the upper gymnasium at Pergamon, Delbrück, pt.
On inner walls a double row of niches is sometimes accompanied by stucco incrustation,[299] while the podium is decorated with engaged columns.
In the interior of the palace, the court of the ḥaram shows a similar disposition, except that the podium is of enamelled brick, not of stone.
These fragments were found in the Forum, and faced the podium of the Temple-Tomb of Caesar.
Under the podium of the basilica is a long narrow vault of opus incertum, but it does not lead into the Tabularium, that being built long afterwards, A.
A brick podium under the right end column of the Arch of Severus marks its site.
Fragments of the marble chimeras, with long wings, that ornamented the seats of the podiumhave been found.
Basilius, who restored the podium and arena after their destruction by an earthquake in 486--this we learn from two inscriptions standing at the entrance.
The brick podium of the shrine was cased with marble, one piece, one foot four inches high, being in situ on the side towards the steps.
Behind the podium was a double portico, which ran round the whole building.
For he very seldom presided in the games, but used to view them reclining on a couch, at first through some narrow apertures, but afterwards with the Podium [570] quite open.
The Past President was speaking faster and faster, because the new President with a hand full of notes was doing her best to edge her away from both the podium and the microphone.
Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin took charge of the Colonel and ushered him to a seat of honor near the podium while the new President prepared to deliver her speech.
I was thankful that the room was too small for the de rigeur ad-hoc circle-of-chairs, so that Lil was able to stand at a podium and command a smidge of respect.
Lil took the podium and tucked stray hairs behind her ears.
On the front of the podium is a dedicatory inscription to the Genius of the master (p.
At the time of the eruption five courses of basalt had been laid, reaching a height of more than four feet, the space between the core of the old podium and the outer wall being filled with concrete as the work progressed.
On the podium of the temple at the farther end is seen the pedestal of the statue of the divinity.
In the right ala is an elaborate house shrine, built like a temple with a facade supported by columns, raised on a podium five feet high (Fig.
We are reminded of the temple of Saturn in the Forum at Rome, the podium of which served as a treasury, aerarium.
The highpodium also, with steps in front, is characteristic of Etruscan, or at least of early Italic religious architecture.
The podium of the temple contains vaulted rooms which can be entered from the Forum through a narrow door on the east side.
Of the existing remains only the inner part of the podium (I, II on the Plan) can be assigned to it; a series of small blocks of tufa at the rear end is perhaps a remnant of the cornice which was carried around the upper edge of the podium.
At the rear a small temple (3) stands upon a high podium which projects in front of the cella and reached by two flights of steps.
Cæsar, who had left the podium some time before, appeared all at once on the flowery arena, wearing a purple mantle, and a crown of gold.
He left thepodium and went at once to the cuniculum.
Young Quartus fell so near Cæsar's podium that he spattered with blood not only the external ornaments but the purple covering spread over the front of the podium.
The Romans, following the Etruscan custom, invariably raised their temples on a podium with a flight of steps on the main front.
Corinthian order, hexastyle, pseudoperipteral, with a portico three columns deep, and is raised on a podium 12 ft.
Greater importance is given to the cathedral by raising it on a podium about 12 ft.
There was a small entrance through the podium at the side, and stairs leading down to the shrine of Erechtheus.
Above the podium were four different orders of seats, divided by belts of upright masonry from each other.
The prefect of the city waved a red handkerchief, the hinges opposite Cæsar's podium creaked, and out of the dark gully came Ursus into the brightly lighted arena.
He came nearer and nearer, and Demetrius proposed that they should cross the little watercourse that parted the podium from the arena and follow the chariot, so as to give his brother the wreaths instead of flinging them to him.
He traversed the distance to the podium with clear composure and stood before the audience a few moments, allowing them to take in his dark gray suit, his confident air.
A spotlight focused on the podium gaped wide and bright.
Manguino stayed at the podium for a while and gloated over the dead bodies of his rival brother and his lovely wife.
Everyone in the crowd watched as the ArchBishop approached the podium and the others swung their clubs from side to side.
Manguino climbed down from the podium and cautiously and shyly approached him.
They all looked at the two spreader-arches set on a platform, about a meter high, to one side of a large podium and the entire square took on the appearance of a theatre stage.
The podium of the arena shows by its lowness that fights with wild beasts did not take place in it.
There were temples to Mars and Neptune, of which there are some remains, drums of a few of the columns and a portion of the podium and steps, now used as the lower courses of poor houses.
Exiting it, we turned down a short, closed hallway that opened into the concealed area behind the podium that I spoke of earlier.
It was a splendid room, equipped with all kinds of luxuries and embellishments and spreading out like a quarter circle around a central stage with a podium upon it.
Someone jumped down from the podium so that there would be a place free for K.
He stood pressed closely against the table, the press of the crowd behind him was so great that he had to press back against it if he did not want to push the judge's desk down off the podium and perhaps the judge along with it.
It was only when one of the people up on the podium drew his attention to the youth that the man turned to him and leant down to hear what it was he quietly said.
She pointed to the podium and invited him to sit down on the step with her.
Once he had settled his thoughts towards the woman in this way, he began to find the quiet conversation at the window was taking too long, he rapped on the podium with his knuckles, and then even with his fist.
On the podium stood the table exactly as it had been before with a few books laying on it.
A brittle newspaper clipping included with the letters revealed that at a reunion of his college fraternity, in 1929, he shared the podium with legendary baseball manager Branch Rickey and prominent Chicago attorney Roy O.
But if a podium is to be built on three sides round the temple, it should be so constructed that its plinths, bases, dies, coronae, and cymatiumare appropriate to the actual stylobate which is to be under the bases of the columns.
Durm's attempt to refer the passage to the case of the temple with a podium which has just been spoken of by Vitruvius is somewhat forced, or at least unnecessary.
Close beside the house of the Vestal Virgins was the far-famed Temple of Vesta, in which they ministered, whose podium or basement, which is a mere circular mound of rough masonry, may be seen on the spot.
The podium or mass of rubble masonry therefore which we see beneath the three columns at the present day belongs to the time of the kings, while the columns themselves belong to the imperial period.
He finds traces of this circle of stones in the podium or low wall of masonry which encircled every Etruscan tumulus or outside tomb, and a remarkable example in the mounds of the Horatii and Curiatii on the Appian Way at Rome.
All he knew was that when at last he was alone he looked toward thepodium and the professor was also gone.
The watchman blocked Mark's escape and looked toward the podium in an automatic appeal to Dr.
B, Podium haematogastrum attaching her egg to an Epilampra sp.
