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The step-like arrangement of the crepidoma may extend around all four sides of a structure like a temple, for example, on the Parthenon. On some temples, the steps extend only across the front façade, or they may wrap around the sides for a short distance, a detail that is called a return, as seen at the Sanctuary of Despoina at Lycosoura.
As early as in Eastern Han dynasty, wheat straw painting was made for worship practices in the royal court as wheat was considered an auspicious grass to pray for good fortune. [3] [4] The craft disappeared with time as a result of social unrest and historical changes and only officially returned during the Sui and Tang dynasties. [4]
Examples of acroteria. An acroterion, acroterium, (pl. akroteria) [1] is an architectural ornament placed on a flat pedestal called the acroter or plinth, and mounted at the apex or corner of the pediment of a building in the classical style. [2]
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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]
A man pours out a libation as depicted on an Attic terracotta cup. A libation is an offering involving the ritual pouring out of a liquid. In ancient Greece, such libations most commonly consisted of watered down wine, but also sometimes of pure wine, honey, olive oil, water or milk. [1]
In classical Greek architecture, a stylobate (Greek: στυλοβάτης) is the top step of the crepidoma [1], the stepped platform upon which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the floor of the temple). [2] The platform was built on a leveling course that flattened out the ground immediately beneath the temple.
The form of the naiskos suggests a religious context, relating especially to Greek funerary culture. Some of the Hellenistic inscriptions found in the Bay of Grama are placed inside a naiskos , and in this case the religious context is an invocation of Castor and Pollux (Dioskouroi) for a safe passage across the Adriatic , rather than funerary.
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