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Temples and public buildings shared the same repertory of forms and decorations. The silver on the table, the mosaics on the floor, the under-floor heating: a uniformity of style existed which is only now returning to our world. That style was not, of course, all inclusive. It was the creation of a leisured class, and Berber tribesmen or Illyrian goatherds doubtless felt little sympathy with it. (Boardman, 1986)