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The Caryatid was removed from Eleusis in 1801 by Englishman Edward Daniel Clarke, who later donated it to the University of Cambridge; it remains on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The second Caryatid B , preserved in a better condition than Saint Demetra, was unearthed in Eleusis some ninety years after the other one was taken, and it is ...
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.
The first translation of the Kural text into Hindi was probably made by Khenand Rakat, who published the translated work in 1924. [1] [2] Khan Chand Rahit published a translation in 1926. [3] In 1958, the University of Madras published a translation by Sankar Raju Naidu under the title "Tamil Ved."
The Korai of Ionia were statues depicting female figures , or Caryatids, and belonged to the collection of Ionian treasuries of the Oracle of Delphi. Already from the middle of the 6th century BC begins the construction of the first Ionic temples with statues of elegant girls on their façades which radiate a feeling of the East, brought from ...
The Townley Caryatid is a 2.25m high Pentelic marble caryatid, depicting a woman dressed to take part in religious rites (possibly fertility rites related to Demeter or Ceres, due to the cereal motifs on her modius headdress).
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The sixth caryatid was stolen (unproven) by the command of British Lord Elgin and is now held in the British Museum in London. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] There are two different views for the meaning behind the caryatid maidens in the literature, the first being a maiden dancer from the village of Karyes [ 3 ] and the second an imprisoned slave. [ 6 ]
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