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What are acroteria?

What are acroteria? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of acroterium
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The apex and corners of the gable were provided with acroteria, standing upon special bases.
On the outside, watch turrets, machiolation and mullioned windows are mixed with Renaissance-style dormer casement windows and acroteria.
Pausanias 49 mentions such acroteria on the stoa Basileios on the agora of Athens.
The acroteria of the Apollo temple are made of beautiful semitranslucent Pentelic marble.
We have also several figures of Victory, which probably were acroteria on some smaller temple, perhaps that of Artemis.
The two sides supports are decorated with acroteria, floral volutes and winged lions.

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