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Roman Ceiling Panels
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Description: A coffer in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels were used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault. The stone coffers of the ancient Greeks and Romans are the earliest surviving examples.
A, from Palmyra; B, Basilica of Constantine.
Source: Hamlin, A. D. F. College Histories of Art History of Architecture (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915) 87
Keywords: roman architecture ceiling panels covering, coffering, soffit, vault, palmyra, basilica constantine
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