Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Alexandrīnum Opus

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Alexandrīnum Opus

A kind of mosaic work used for the flooring of rooms, its distinctive char

Alexandrinum Opus. (Pompeii.)

acter lying in the fact that the pattern was composed of only two colours, e. g. red and black on a white ground, as in the accompanying specimen found at Pompeii in a house. See the article Musivum Opus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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