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Crusta

A figure in low relief as distinguished from one in high relief, which was called emblema (Verr. ii. 4, 23). See Caelatura; Emblema.

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

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