Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
acroterium .
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- noun Plural form of
acroterium .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That is, the original material of the acroteria was the same used in the whole covering of the roof, namely terracotta.
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The architecture of the museum shared many of the same features—massive stonework, statues that were strikingly similar to the lovely caryatids and other sculptured figures created by the masterful Grecian artists, columns topped by Ionic capitals, and acroteria—the elaborately carved figures adorning the corners and tops of pediments.
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The stately 1991 building serves as the hub of the Chicago Public Library system; its red-brick façade evokes a Beaux-Arts style, while its roof is topped with soaring bronze acroteria.
PHOTOS: Harold Washington Library, One Of The Most Beautiful In America
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From previous studies, it is clear that the nymphaeum had two stories of an aediculated façade, and we have found elaborately carved parts of its entablature and of decorated corner acroteria.
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Furtwängler to have been acroteria (_Arch, Zeitung_, 1882, p. 336 ff.)
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Page 33 bounded the pedimental space, above and below, and finally crowned the whole structure in the acroteria.
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Another important argument is furnished by the certain use of terracotta plates as acroteria.
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The acroteria, painted in black and red on the natural surface of poros stone, take the shape of palmettes and lotuses.
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Of course his silence does not prove that there were none; but with all the finds of acroteria, terracottas and the like, no trace of any such sculptures was discovered.
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Pausanias [49] mentions such acroteria on the Stoa Basileios on the agora of Athens.
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