10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACROTERIAL»
Discover the use of
acroterial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
acroterial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
Now, the apex and two ends of a Greek pediment were commonly accentuated
by so-called acroterial statues. It can hardly be doubted that in a monument so
highly adorned as the Mausoleum such decorations would not have been
wanting; ...
2
Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History
99) alternating with rosettes and lions-head waterspouts; and big, hand- modeled
acroterial figures placed on the ridgepole of the roof on all sides of the courtyard.
The fragments of acroterial figures have been identified as at least twenty-three ...
3
Religion in Ancient Etruria
Turms/Hermes: large acroterial statue from the columen of the Portonaccio
Temple at Veii. End of the sixth century. Rome, Museo Naz. di Villa Giulia.
sculpture, and especially in the large acroterial figures. A rather complex
ideological reading ...
4
Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture
216) and an assumed head of Leto are assigned to a putative acroterial group.60
One aspect of the decoration of the Mausoleum on which all scholars agree is the
location of the Amazon frieze around the upper edge of the podium (ftg. 217).
The most significant image from the point of view of the iconography is certainly
the acroterial griffon on the upper register (color pis. 5 and 6). The griffon is a
mythical beast, part eagle and part lion, belonging to the same family as sphinxes
, ...
6
The Museum of classical antiquities [ed. by E. Falkener].
The two male figures of the centre acroterial ornament are so identical in attitude,
and so difficult to form into one group with the female figure, that I have supposed
a similar group of one Ionian youth with a captive Lycian damsel to occupy a ...
7
The Museum of classical antiquities: a quarterly journal of ...
The two male figures of the centre acroterial ornament are so identical in attitude,
and so difficult to form into one group with the female figure, that I have supposed
a similar group of one Ionian youth with a captive Lycian damsel to occupy a ...
8
On the Ionic Heroum at Xanthus: (Fragment of "The Museum of ...
The two male figures of the centre acroterial ornament are so identical in attitude,
and so difficult to form into one group with the female figure, that I have supposed
a similar group of one Ionian youth with a captive Lycian damsel to occupy a ...
9
A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and ...
Fragment of the upper part of a sepulchral stele, crowned with a pediment and
acroterial ornaments. The field of the pediment is occupied with an acanthus
scroll, springing from a central leaf. Inscribed . . . \dip€. — Mycenae. Inwood Coll.
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Arthur Hamilton Smith, 1901
10
ad-Damîrí's Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān, a zoological lexicon
It is also related on his (Ibn-TsMk's) authority that on the night on which the
Apostle of God was born, the palace of Kasra shook, and there fell down from it
fourteen of its acroterial ornaments. Kasra Nnshirwihi thereupon became
impatient, ...
Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Damīrī, Atmaram Sadashiv G. Jayakar, 1908
