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- style. An acroterion placed at the outer angles of the pediment is an acroterion angularium (angulārium means ‘at the corners’). The acroterion may take...
- quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses, which was on top of the roof as an acroterion. This sculpture, as well as the cult statue of Jupiter in the main cella...
- Acroterion of winged gorgon, 540-530 BC, from the temple...
- acromegalia, acromegaly, acromion, acronym, acrophobia, acropolis, acrostic, acroterion, acrotomophilia actin- beam, ray Gr**** ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος (aktís, aktînos)...
- bust of a well-dressed young girl that may have served as the antefix or acroterion of the temple as possibly being a representation of Hebe. Hebe was also...
- post of an ornate metal stair railing, Town Hall, Birkenhead, England Acroterion Alem (finial) Crocket Chigi (architecture) Mandir kalasha Souvenir spoon...
- (Kourotrophos) rather than an abductor of young men, the late Archaic sculptural acroterion from Etruscan Cære, now in Berlin, showing the goddess in archaic running...
- Spring and Autumn period, Qin state, acroterion with deer and roe deer, c. 770-475 BCE, from Doufu, Baoji (Provincial institute of archeology of Shaanxi)...
- the roof were decorated with sphinx acroteria, and the central, vegetal acroterion of each side had a pair of kore statues standing one on either side, an...
- roof, going beyond the acroterion group above a pediment in Gr**** and Roman temples. The Apollo of Veii was part of an acroterion group. Substantial but...