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Flaying Definition

Cutting skin into strips and pulling it off of a living victim. Flaying was used by the Assyrians to torture their captives.

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Flutes Definition

Vertical channels cut in the sides of columns.

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Forum Definition

Roman marketplace.

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Fresco Definition

Design created by painting water colors onto wet plaster.

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Frieze Definition

A design or series of low-relief sculptures forming an ornamental, horizontal band around a room or between the architrave and cornice of a building.

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Frigidarium Definition

Cold room in Roman baths.

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Galilee Definition

The northern part of the land of Palestine. Jesus grew up in the town of Nazareth, in Galilee, and did a lot of his teaching ministry here.

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Gallus Definition

(plural- Galli) - Priests of Cybele and Attis.

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Gamla Definition

Aramic, meaning "camel," because from a distance this ridge in the Golan Heights (Gaulanitis) looks like a camel's hump. Located north and east of the Sea of Galilee. Home to nationalistic Pharisees (Zealots) who sought deliverance from ...

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Gan Definition

Garden; or terraced hillside, sometimes containing a number of different fruit trees like olive, fig, and grape.

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Gat Shemen Definition

Olive (shemen) press (gat) From which we get the term "gethsemene."

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Gath Definition

One of the five Philistine city-states. Goliath was born here.

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