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	Opus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opus the Penguin is a character in various comic strips by Berkeley Breathed.
		Opus is an ancient Greek city of Eastern Locris, on the coast of mainland Greece across from Euboea
		Opus Pistorum is a novel by Henry Miller
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opus (304 words)

	Opus - WikiGadugi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Opus ᎯᎠ Penguin ᎨᏒᎢ ᎠᎦᏓᏅᏖᏗ ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ ᏧᏓᎴᏅᏓ ᎤᎸᏓᎴᏍᎩ ᎢᎬᎾᏕᏍᏗᎾᎥᎢ Berkeley ᎠᎵᎠᎷ.
		"magnum opus" (ᎠᎴ "opus magnum") ᎨᏒᎢ ᎡᏆ ᏗᎦᎸᏫᏍᏓᏁᏗ ᎠᎴ, ᎤᏟ ᎢᎦᎢ ᏱᏓᏟᎶᏍᏔᏅ, ᎯᎠ ᏭᏔᏅ ᏗᎦᎸᏫᏍᏓᏁᏗ ᎠᏏᏴᏫ.
		Opus ᎨᏒᎢ ᎯᎸᎯᏳᎢ ᎠᎪᎢ ᎦᏚᎲᎢ ᎧᎸᎬᎢᏗᏢ Locris, ᎾᎿ ᎯᎠ ᎠᎹᏳᎸᏗ ᎦᏙᎯ Greece ᏗᎦᎾᏗᎯᏍᏗ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ Euboea
	www.wikigadugi.org /wiki/Opus (250 words)

	Opus is a Latin Latin word for work The plural...
		The plural plural of "opus" is "opera opera".
		Opus the penguin Opus the penguin is a character in the cartoon strip Bloom County Bloom County.
		A "magnum opus magnum opus" (or "opus magnum") is a great work or, more commonly, the greatest work of a person.
	www.biodatabase.de /Opus (221 words)

	Opus: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		It is...' music are given opus numbers which generally run either in order of composition or in order of...
		...Opus Dei Opus Dei Opus Dei (The Work of God, The Work, God 's Work) is a Roman...John Paul II made Opus Dei a personal prelature in 1982, and canonized its founder in 2002.
		Selected works Opus 11 String Quartet No.1 in D major Opus 20 Swan Lake, ballet Opus 23 Piano...No.1 in Bb major Opus 35 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major Opus 36 Symphony No.4 in F...
	www.encyclopedian.com /op/Opus.html (328 words)

	Opus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Srimad Rahasyathraya Sara is the magnum opus of the post-Ramanuja polymath, Vedanta Desika.
		Opus Soft eyes $15 mn deals abroadBusiness Standard, India - Aug 21, 2006Opus Software Solutions has ambitious future plans owing to success of its subsidiary Electra card Services (ECS) last year.The company is positive about 3-4...
		Opus 68, dubbed the "Pastoral," was a celebration of nature.
	www.33beat.com /Opus.html (344 words)

	FORUM NOVUM - Fieldwork in 1998
		The southern trench centred on the large T-shaped Atrium with its surrounding rooms, and was extended to include a section of the so-called cryptoporticus or covered walkway which ran parallel to the main south wall.
		The south wall was built in opus quasi-reticulatum, a technique dated to the late republican/early imperial period, whereby a concrete core is faced in a fairly regular network of roughly squared stones.
		The presence in one room of herringbone tiled floor (opus spicatum) and an associated drain only 25 cm below the surface was a mystery, especially since the floor did not reach the edges of the room.
	www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk /bufau/research/forum_novum/fieldwork_1998.htm (1594 words)

	Interim Site Report 2000 - The East - West Aisled Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Trenches 11, 12, and 15 contained pieces of opus caementicium bonded onto the sides of intact stratigraphy.The spolia west wall (502) [Photo 9011.00022] in trench 27 was found to have the same opus caementicium bonded onto its eastern and southern faces.
		The presence of opus caementicium bonded onto the sides of the intact Roman stratigraphy at the western end of the ‘vestibule’ ascertains the presence of a vertical structure which separates the higher level associated with Cardo IX and the lower floor levels associated with the east-west aisled structure.
		The area between the western edge of the limestone slabs and the opus caementicium bonded onto the higher Roman stratigraphy are the remains of the buttressing for the wall.
	www.classics.cam.ac.uk /carthage/Plan/SREWmainAisle.htm (8825 words)

	Sardinia - Archaeology - O - Sardegna.com
		• Opus Africanus- Struttura muraria,detta anche muro a telaio, composta da una serie di pilastri o grandi blocchi intervallati tra loro,con lo spazio intermedio riempito da pietre irregolari di piccole e medie dimensioni,legate in diverse maniere a seconda delle diverse epoche.
		• Opus Spicatum-Tipo di pavimentazione costituita da piccoli mattoncini rettangolari messi in opera di taglio,formanti motivi a spina di pesce.
		• Opus Vittatum- Struttura muraria composta da un nucleo di opus caementicum rivestito con paramento a ricorsi regolari di blocchetti alternati a mattoni.
	www.sardegna.com /code/archeologia/id/205/LINGUA/EN (342 words)

	Regio I - Insula VIII - Piccolo Mercato (I,VIII,1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At some point in time a low balustrade (opus reticulatum) was built between the smaller piers.
		The courtyards and portico had a floor of opus spicatum.
		The lower part is of travertine steps, the remainder was a sloping ramp, covered with opus spicatum.
	www.ostia-antica.org /regio1/8/8-1.htm (345 words)

	PCA - Sites - Highlights - The Lost Port of Londinium
		Opus spicatum bricks and tesserae found on top of, or close to, the bathhouse may indicate that the structure had herringbone and some mosaic flooring in addition to opus signinum.
		Makeup layers to the yard surface are thought to be contemporary with the primary phase of the bath-house and pottery from them suggests a deposition date after AD 240.
		The yard was partly enclosed to the north and west by an accommodation block, a clay-and-timber building with reasonably well appointed rooms, although the opus signinum mortar floors were in a degraded state at the time of excavation.
	www.pre-construct.com /Sites/Highlights/Lostport3.htm (774 words)

	Regio I - Insula III - Caseggiato di Diana (I,III,3-4)
		In the east part of the north wall of backroom 5 is a door, the lower part of which was blocked with opus vittatum.
		To the west of the latrine is passage 18, covered by a barrel vault and with a floor of opus spicatum.
		To the north of I2 is I3, with a floor of opus spicatum and with travertine thresholds in the doors.
	www.ostia-antica.org /regio1/3/3-3.htm (2220 words)

	Beethoven Opus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Opus Dei (God 's work) is aconservative Roman Catholic organization founded in 1928.
		Opus the penguin is a character in various comic strips by BerkeleyBreathed.
		A " magnum opus " (or "opus magnum") is a great work or, morecommonly, the greatest work of a person.
	www.vermontreview.com /edge/8401-beethovenopus.html (195 words)

	Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection - The Building
		The rooms of the building were floored with new terra cotta tiles, except in the corridor hall of the entrance, where they kept the original floor made of bricks placed in a refined herringbone way (opus spicatum).
		The opus spicatum floor has been repaired, the courtyard façades have been repainted, and the graffiti decoration has been restored by specialists.
		The old - and well preserved - opus spicatum floor and some drain wells were found out under a moderne tile floor.
	www.burcardo.org /English/restorations.html (601 words)

	PIA GULDAGER BILDE
		It was constructed in opus caementicium with an upper facing of opus quasi reticulatum made of basalt cubilia.
		In the rooms were evidence of two different types of opus sectile floor, one with a pattern showing a square in a square, the larger squares being separated with a narrow fillet.
		In north, a structure in opus mixtum was added as a support of the road terrace consisting of two parallel fornices in total 9 m wide, which may have carried a monumental entrance to the villa (Fig.
	fc.hum.au.dk /~klapg/article.htm (7188 words)

	Function And Meaning Of Hadrian's Villa
		They were simply paved with coccio-pisto, or opus spicatum, or sometimes with very coarse mosaic, cheap materials which we saw being typical of the buildings belonging to this group.
		Their decoration was extremely refined and luxurious: pavements were in marble (opus sectile), or in polychrome mosaic, sometimes enclosing precious panels in vermiculatum; fl and white mosaics were used only in service rooms and passageways.
		Opus sectile pavements employed marbles coming from caves scattered in the whole world, with a great variety of colours and patterns.
	www.villa-adriana.net /pages/eng/page9_3.html (3239 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.08.09 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		First, there were luxury pavements: opus sectile and polychrome mosaics, with wall decoration ranging from marble to mosaic, from stucco to frescoes.
		Third, there were rough pavements, with coarse mosaics, brick or opus spicatum flooring.
		Guidobaldi devised a method for reconstructing opus sectile patterns when the tiles are missing and just their imprints in the mortar are preserved.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999/1999-08-09.html (1699 words)

	opus caementicium roman walls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mostly walls made in opus caementicium were covered with other materials to make a more robust and workable surface.
		Opus caementicium is a construction technique using an aggregate, water and a binding agent.
		Using irregualar shaped and random placed uncut stones or fist-sized tufa blocks inserted in a core of opus caementicium, used from the beginning of the 2nd century bc, later superceded by opus (quasi) reticulatum
	www.cs.uu.nl /~wilke/aquasite/hulp/tekopusbreed.htm (251 words)

	LE CHATEAU DE LUC
		Constructs before him, Xllème century on one Celtic site, to the foot of the forest of Mercoire, it was one of, more important of the region.
		Its architecture in opus spicatum (or ear of wheat), is remarkable.
		Enlarged to the thread of alliances, it kept, in spite of its present deterioration, signs, imposing of a military fortress.
	www.langogne.com /anglais/luc_chateau.htm (412 words)

	Function and meaning of Hadrian's Villa
		It was the prevailing type of pavement in most of Hadrian's Villa (approximately 60-70% of its pavements were in opus sectile), and used a variety of marbles coming from the whole world - a beautiful collection is visible in the 'Didactic Museum' at the Villa.
		Opus sectile drawings have been classified in three main groups (for the different drawings, see also Section: Opus Sectile Repertoire):
		or rectangular, the opus sectile patterns employed simple drawings, which easily followed their shape, were less expensive and could be made in a short time.
	www.villa-adriana.net /pages/eng/page9.html (2392 words)

	FLOORS
		There is a type of floor whose name occurs frequently in the literature of Roman building techniques and this is the opus signinum.
		The name does not help us in determining what exactly it was to the Romans did, as 'opus' means a 'work or construction' and 'signinum' means "after the fashion of Signia", a town near to Rome.
		Next is a type of paving made from small bricks known as opus spicatum.
	www.butser.org.uk /bulletin28.html (647 words)

	The Roman Villa at Cottanello
		In the tuscanic type atrium, the rain water coming from the four pitches of the roof, was collected into the basin of the impluvium, from where it was distributed, through pipes, to the thermal rooms in the south-western area of the building.
		The atrium floor was decorated with a mosaic of cross type and in the middle, in the impluvium (3,80x2,80 metres), paved in opus spicatum, it is possible to see some walls of uncertain work, which probably date to a first phase of the building of the villa.
		The thermal zone, west of the atrium, seems to belong to a later stage of the villa development, for signs of a previous plant were found in the rooms; the frigidarium has been located, characterised by the circular form, with four opposite hollows and earthenware floor, over parts of a previous opus spicatum floor.
	www.sabina.it /luoghi/villco-i.htm (774 words)

	American Academy in Rome - The House of Diana on the Forum
		To the left of the tablinum is the opening of an andron, the corridor that connects the atrium and garden in many second-century houses.
		A raised cistern in the rear corner of a functional floor in opus spicatum, with a drain into the cesspit below the floor, suggest that the structure constituted private baths.
		The rest of the space between the back of the house and the street to the south was occupied by a garden.
	www.aarome.org /programs/arch/diana.htm (1765 words)

	Topographical dictionary - Glossary
		The original centre is at the right end and indicated by a line flanked by two triangles.
		If exceptionally a field of reticulate is visible (small tufa blocks placed diagonally), the whole may still be described as opus latericium.
		Opus vittatum mixtum has two subgroups: A and B. The distinction is made purely for chronological reasons.
	www.ostia-antica.org /dict/topics/glossary.htm (351 words)

	Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei - ERCOLANO - Sede degli Augustali (VI,21 e 24)
		This is a building with a quadrangular layout, with walls separated by blind arches and four central columns: the floor is in signinum opus; that of the upper floor was in opus spicatum (bricks arranged in a herringbone pattern).
		In the back, to the right of the sacellum, is the caretaker's room in opus craticium, whose skeleton was found lying on the bed.
		An inscription now placed on the wall reminds us that the building, dedicated to Augustus (27 B.C.-14 A.D.) while still living, was built by the brothers A. Lucius Proculus and A. Lucius Iulianus, who offered a luncheon to the members of the municipal senate and the Augustals on its inauguration day.
	www2.pompeiisites.org /database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/729929E62C904105C1256B04005C308D?OpenDocument (176 words)

	::: Discovery Channel - Rebuilding the Past - The Romans ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The name signifies the place the technique was developed: 'opus' means a 'work or construction' and 'signinum', after the fashion of Signia, a town near to Rome.
		There have been many arguments about its composition: the Roman architect, Vitruvius, is much quoted but he seems to be discussing a waterproof cement for cisterns.
		In this case spicatum which means 'like an ear of wheat'.
	animalplanet.discoveryeurope.com /staging/clive3/rebuildingthepast/romans/feature5.shtml (609 words)

	Penaflor chapter 1
		Rubble (248), opus spicatum (246), Pottery and brick (245)
		Drain on the inside of the courtyard: formed by an opus signinum lining (671) on top of a line of stones (673) and the colonnade foundation (670) and (725)
		Opus signinum surface appearing in the cistern section, possibly the original surface of the courtyard: (730)
	www.arch.soton.ac.uk /Research/Penaflor/ch1 (1307 words)

	Sabina.net -Saint Pietro Montebuono
		The villa is normally konwn as the "Baths of Agrippa" because of a fragment of an inscription.The construction of the church included the re-use of much material of the Roman period.
		The walls of the villa were only partly destroyed and therefore mosaics, pavements in opus spicatum, wall paintings and a cistern have remerged to give a fascinatingglimpse of some of the rooms belonging to the more luxurious living quarters of the villa, which was clearly a building of enormous dimensions.
		The church of Saint Pietro was built durig the lively political climate of the twelfth century and is first metioned in July 1105.
	www.sabina.net /Inglese/abbazie/sanpietro.htm (266 words)

	l'Ametlla del Vallès - l'Ametlla origin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Montbui's castle is raised at the top of a 541 metres high hill between Sant Feliu de Codines, Bigues and Caldes de Montbui.
		There are left notorious pieces of polygonal structured wall, made with inclined stone rows that remember opus spicatum.
		The parish returned to devote itself in the 1123, reason why it assumes that the church was reconstructed or it was extended (the document does not specify it).
	www.telefonica.net /web2/chuy/ametlla/Historia/h12.html (363 words)

	Monzón, The Casttle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The tower of the Homage is Musulman, probably built between the IX and X centuries.
		Its plant is squared; present masonry factory disposed to the manner «opus spicatum» chained with ashlars in the edges.
		The tower, last refuge of the Templars, has the door of revenue in high and there are data that attest that had two windows in the sides.
	articulos.altoaragon.org /i_osca33.htm (689 words)

	Point Arising
		Opus reticulatum - uses shaped blocks of tufa set in
		Opus spicatum is a type of paving made from small bricks laid in a zigzag pattern like a parquet floor.
		Opus sectile is a type of mosaic using cut, polished stone or glass pieces.
	www.favonius.com /romans/points_arising.htm (1177 words)

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