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Cardo and decumanus: Streets crossing at right angles
in the Roman and Byzantine cities.
Chancel screen: A low parapet enclosing the sanctuary
inside a church; it was usually made of stone or marble posts
and panels.
Ciborium: A free-standing domed construction rised as
a canopy over the Holy Altar and supported by four thin columns.
Coenobium (Koinobion): A monastery in which monks live
and work together.
Constantine I, the Great: Augustus and sole ruler of
the Roman Empire from 324, till his death in 337. In the dommestic
policy he carried out importand military, administrative and
fiscal reforms. He founded Constantinople, in the site of the
old Megarian colony Byzantis, as the new imperial residence
and a monument for his victory over augustus and co-ruler Licinius,
in 324. He was the first christian emperor, as he was baptised
on his deathbed.
Constantius II: Son of Constantine I the Great, caesar,
augustus and sole emperor of the empire from 353. He faced succesfully
the raids of the Persians in Mesopotamia and the expansion of
the Germans and Sarmatians in northern borders. Constantius
was in fond of Arianism, thus his religious policy caused a
lot of conflicts between state and Church.
Consuls: Annualy appointed officials (one in Constantinople
and one in Rome) responsible for financing public games in the
hippodrome or circus; consular diptychs were carved ivory diptychs
in the form of writing-tablets, distributed as gifts by consuls
when they took office.
Crypt: A chamber beneath the main floor of the church,
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