Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Abaculus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ABAC'ULUS (ἀβακίσκος). A small tile or die of glass, or a composition in imitation of stone, stained of various colours, and used for inlaying patterns in mosaic pavements. (Plin. H.N. xxxvi. 67. Moschus ap. Athen. v. 41.) The illustration (Abaculus/1.1) represents part of the ancient mosaic pavement in the church of S. Groce in Gerusalemme, at Rome.

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  Abaculus/1.1