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  2. Greek terracotta figurines - Wikipedia

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    Certain statuettes include a small cavity intended to receive smaller figurines, representative of their babies. During early childhood, figurines of squatting children were given —a representation of Eastern origin, arrived in Greece via Rhodes and Cyprus. The so-called "temple boys" were thought to protect children.

  3. Ancient Greek temple - Wikipedia

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    [19] [20] Although new temples to Greek deities still continued to be constructed, e.g. the Tychaion at Selge [21] [22] they tend to follow the canonical forms of the developing Roman imperial style of architecture [23] or to maintain local non-Greek idiosyncrasies, like the temples in Petra [24] or Palmyra. [25]

  4. Pedimental sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The pediment begins in Ancient Greek architecture; according to the mid-fifth century BCE poet Pindar, it was a Corinthian invention. [4] It is possible that it was devised specifically to contain sculpture, which from the early 6th century became "customary (though never obligatory)" in Doric temples; in Ionic ones it was a "rarity". [5]

  5. Temple ruins on uninhabited Greek island reveal 2,400-year ...

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    Kouros statues were “popular” in ancient Greek culture from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century B.C., according to Britannica. The young male figures were used as tombstones ...

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    After some scrupulous digging, we unearthed several excellent deals in Walmart's sale section, including a super-sized version of the luxury moisturizer that dermatologists have told us is the ...

  7. Votive offering - Wikipedia

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    Votive paintings in the ambulatory of the Chapel of Grace, in Altötting, Bavaria, Germany Mexican votive painting of 1911; the man survived an attack by a bull. Part of a female face with inlaid eyes, Ancient Greek Votive offering, 4th century BC, probably by Praxias, set in a niche of a pillar in the sanctuary of Asclepios in Athens, Acropolis Museum, Athens Bronze animal statuettes from ...

  8. Archaeologists Just Discovered An Ancient Greek Temple Filled ...

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    Notable for its 100-foot length, symbolic of the hundred-meter temples of this period in ancient Greece, the find was fully uncovered in 2023 and features exterior walls and an arch on the west side.

  9. Tavole Palatine - Wikipedia

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    The Tavole Palatine ("Palatine Tables") are the remains of a hexastyle peripteral Greek temple of Magna Graecia the 6th century BC, dedicated to the goddess Hera and the god Apollo. [1] The temple, located near the Bradano river in the south of Italy, was part of a countryside sanctuary and remains of the wall of the temenos and of a very ...

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