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- 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...
- displaying a plane face architrave. A triangular pediment adorned with alleged akroteria. The motto is: SAPERE AUDE (Dare to think) The flag is in proportions...
- 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...
- the corner akroteria of the temple of Asklepios in Epidauros. Pausanias (5, 10, 8) describes bronze tripods forming the corner akroteria and statues...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...