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. |