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See also:PAVEMENT (See also:Lat. pavimentu;n, a See also:floor beaten or rammed hard, from pavire, to See also:beat)
, a See also:term originally applied to the covering of a road or pathway with some durable material, and so used of the paved footway at the See also:side of a See also:street—the "side-walk " as opposed to the roadway proper
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The term is also extended to the interior See also:floor of churches and public buildings
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It is probable that the earliest pavements consisted only of rammed See also:clay, as in the " beehive " tombs of See also:Mycenae, or of See also:cement or See also:stucco decorated with lines in coloured See also:marbles, such as those mentioned in the See also:Book of See also:Esther (vi
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See also:Flinders See also:Petrie discovered at Tell el' Amarna in the palace of Akhenaton the remains of a stucco See also:pavement, decorated with foliage, See also:flowers, birds, &c., and a See also:complete naturalistic treatment
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The See also:threshold of the doors of the See also:Assyrian palaces were of See also: The Roman tradition was continued by the See also:Byzantine architects, who, throughout the See also:East, paved their churches with mosaics, frequently of the same See also:design and See also:execution as those of the See also:Romans, but with See also:Christian symbols . The churches of the Romanesque, See also:Gothic and See also:Renaissance periods were all paved in marble, but of a different See also:character from those of the earlier period (see MOSAIC) . |
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