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Sentence Examples
On the outside, watch turrets, machiolation and mullioned windows are mixed with Renaissance-style dormer casement windows and acroteria.
The acroteria of the Apollo temple are made of beautiful semitranslucent Pentelic marble.
The two sides supports are decorated with acroteria, floral volutes and winged lions.
According to contemporary accounts, there were also to have been bronze acroteria — small ornamental decorations — in the form of sphinxes at the gable ends of the sloped roof, but these were not carried out.
Examples from Classical Literature
Pausanias 49 mentions such acroteria on the stoa Basileios on the agora of Athens.
The apex and corners of the gable were provided with acroteria, standing upon special bases.
We have also several figures of Victory, which probably were acroteria on some smaller temple, perhaps that of Artemis.
Another important argument is furnished by the certain use of terracotta plates as acroteria.
That is, the original material of the acroteria was the same used in the whole covering of the roof, namely terracotta.
The acroteria, painted in black and red on the natural surface of poros stone, take the shape of palmettes and lotuses.
At the first opening of the ruins twenty-five statues were discovered, besides the four female figures belonging to the acroteria.
On the acroteria, or pedestal, at the top, is a colossal statue of S. Michael with vestments adorned by a gilded pattern.
The relief is bounded by two pilasters surmounted by a pediment, with acroteria.
On the acroteria of the pediment are three statues by John Smyth, viz.
