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A caryatid (/ ˌ k ɛər i ˈ æ t ɪ d, ˌ k ær-/ KAIR-ee-AT-id, KARR-; [1] Ancient Greek: Καρυᾶτις, romanized: Karuâtis; pl. Καρυάτιδες, Karuátides) [2] is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
An ox broke free of its halter the day before the removal and dashed against Saint Demetra with its horns, alarming the locals who took it to be a bad omen for the crops. [5] Clarke assured them that they would suffer no harm, and brought a Christian priest from Aegina who first broke the soil around the statue to prove nothing would happen. [12]
The caryatid is the female precursor of this architectural form in Greece, a woman standing in the place of each column or pillar. Caryatids are found at the treasuries at Delphi and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens for Athene.
The base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument or structure rests. A plinth is a lower terminus of the face trim on a door that is thicker and often wider than the trim which it augments. Poppyheads Finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of bench ends, either to pews or stalls.
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A fragmentary caryatid from the series, now in the Villa Albani, Rome, is signed by the otherwise unknown Athenian sculptors Kriton and Nikolaos. It was acquired with other purchases from the Villa Montalto in 1787 [ 1 ] by Charles Townley , who bequeathed it to the British Museum in 1805, where its catalogue number is 1805, 0703 44.
Breaking down the legend of the head statues, or the Testa Di Moro, in Season Two of "The White Lotus," and what they all mean.
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