In New York City, Columbus Circle is the omphalos, yet no building here comes close to exalting that special point in Manhattan space. |
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Large globular urn, which has a short, strangled neck, everted rim and concave bottom in omphalos. |
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Biconical-shaped, small ceramic vessel with a big belly, it is low and asymmetrical, with omphalos bottom and missing mouth. |
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To the ancient Greeks, the general notion of omphalos was fundamental. |
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It is the omphalos, this city that straddles two steamboat rivers at the continental crossroads. |
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There were a number of omphaloi in Greece, but Delphi was the omphalos par excellence. |
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