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Telamones
Telamones Tel`a*mo"nes, n. pl. [L., pl. of telamo or telamon, Gr. ? a bearer, fr. ? to bear.] (Arch.) Same as Atlantes.
telamones
Atlantes At*lan"tes, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?, pl. of ?. See Atlas.] (Arch.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. --Oxf. Gloss.

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- pilaster. The Roman term for such a sculptural support is telamon (plural telamones or telamons). The term atlantes is the Gr**** plural of the name Atlas—the...
- room a series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by telamones. The tepidarium was the great central hall, around which all the other...
- decorative. These include pilasters with capitals supported by pairs of infant telamones, rams' skulls are placed at the apex of each spandrel like bucrania; bronze...
- are divided from each other by figures of the kind called atlantes or telamones, which project from the walls and support a rich cornice above them in...
- male counterpart of the caryatid is referred to as a telamon (plural telamones) or atlas (plural atlantes) – the name refers to the legend of Atlas,...
- its first line, "Son of Telamon". Erasmus. Adagia. 3, 4, 10: "Canere de Telamone". ... the Telamon would have been a plaintive song about the father mourning...
- leading to the Corso Calatifimi and Piazza Indipendenza presents four big telamones depicting the Moors defeated by Charles V. C****aro Corso Calatafimi Piazza...
- Threadneedle Street façade 1928–1931 Charles Wheeler John Soane Reliefs Grade I Telamones and caryatides Threadneedle Street façade, beneath the portico 1928–1931...
- from the original on February 10, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021. "Telamones and Atlantes". www.classicist.org. Archived from the original on February...
- (former) Chicago House of Blues Hotel lobby Four 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) Telamones sculptures Driehaus Capital Management, Chicago, IL M****ive carved Romanesque...