ANAGLYPHA. This term is to be found in 1 Kings vi. 32. Sculpsit in eis picturam Cherubim, & palmarum Species, & Anaglypha. This last word is Greek1, and signifies all sorts of figures in relievo, or rather all sorts of engraving embossed, or in basso relievo. Vessels adorned with figures in relievo, Opera signi, as Virgil speaks2; or in asperitatem excisa, as Pliny terms them3, are what we call Anaglypha.
But the passage in the book of Kings where this word is met with, signifies, that as there were figures of Palm-trees, Cherubims, and blown Lilies all round the wall within the Sanctuary, Solomon appointed the same to be carved in basso relievo upon the doors of the Sanctuary; or, as the Hebrew reads it, he carved upon them carvings of Cherubims, and Palmtrees, and open Flowers w.
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