- just
above the cyma
where an
akroteria would have been placed. The main body of the
central statue that made up the
akroteria was
composed of bronze, not...
- An acroterion, acroterium, (pl.
akroteria) is an
architectural ornament placed on a flat
pedestal called the
acroter or plinth, and
mounted at the apex...
-
Athena (east) and the
Return of
Hephaistos to
Olympos (west), and, as
akroteria, the
Nereids Thetis and
Eurynome (west)
accompanied by Nikai, the two...
- The “Murlo Cowboy” is a
famous akroteria that is part of over a
dozen Etruscan sculptures,
discovered in the
ruins of the
Archaic Building at the excavation...
-
reads that he was the "successful
competitor in the
construction of the
akroteria for the temple." His
victory in the
competition was
likely the result...
- The ridge-pole
tiles of the roof were
decorated with cut-out
akroteria. The
akroteria was
patterendwith many
lotus and
palmette designs that were thought...
- the
corner akroteria of the
temple of
Asklepios in Epidauros.
Pausanias (5, 10, 8)
describes bronze tripods forming the
corner akroteria and statues...
- ISBN 9789004111981. Palagia, Olga (2005), "Fire from Heaven:
Pediments and
Akroteria of the Parthenon" in The Parthenon: From
Antiquity to the Present, edited...
- “classical
Sculpture from the
Athenian Agora, Part 1: The
Pediments and
Akroteria of the Hephaisteion.”
Hesperia 87 (4):681–741. Peixoto,
Gabriel B. (2022)...
- sculpture; all
metopes and
pediments were left
empty and
there were no
akroteria. Nonetheless, a
number of
freestanding shrines and
votives stood in the...
