I.the art of engraving or carving bass-reliefs in metals and ivory, engraving, celature.
I. Lit.: “caelatura, quae auro, argento, aere, ferro opera efficit: nam sculptura etiam lignum, ebur, marmor, vitrum, gemmas, praeterea quae supra dixi, complectitur,” Quint. 2, 21, 8: “caelatura altior,” id. 2, 4, 7; Plin. 35, 12, 45, § 156.—
B. In other substances, e. g. in clay, Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 158; cf. id. 19, 4, 19, § 53; Dig. 13, 1, 13; cf. caelo, I. B.—
II. Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), the engraved figures themselves, carved work, Suet. Ner. 47: “usque adeo attritis caelaturis, ne figura discerni possit,” Plin. 33, 12, 55, § 157; Sen. Ep. 5, 3; Quint. 2, 17, 8; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 98 Müll.
