Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, the front of anything, as the head of a horse or the prow of a ship.
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- noun A decorative element, on ancient artefacts, based on the
head of an animal orbust of a person
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Examples
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A bronze griffin protome and two Egyptian relief fragments were sold at a 1991 auction.
Geneva Seizure 1998
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Germanici togati protome; cum capite laureato, facie plena,
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Nervæ togati protome; cum capite laureato, plena facie; opus pulcherrimum.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Liviæ protome: cum capite laureato et velato pectore: simul Tiberii pueri prope adstantis caput arboris ignotæ foliis redimitum.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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IMPERIO, cnm ejus protome, aut stanlis sedentisTe ef&gie, praecipne ex qoo miranda haec orbs, et diTinae credita prosapiae, per omnes imperii proTincias aris ac templis coepit obserTariv, Par etiam honor tri - butus senatni populoque Romano, qno - ram mentio in exterarnm gentiam mo - neta hoc modo peragitar.
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Et suadent attributa, ejas ipsios imagip nem hac quoque protome propositam« nePIOAOC.
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: am protome galttti tt laurtati ten XUL St.n. 1« p» 269 fq.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1795
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«iiif# fVimo Rix, Huius protome» deftiper crucicula.
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