. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. f^r tr^. x ?-T. Fig. 13G1. The Acropolis at .\tl;ens. strength. The most celebrated were those at Athens, Corintli, and Ithome; the twolatter were called the horns of the Peloponnesus, as though their possession couldsecure the submission of the whole peninsula. AcROTERiA. (Gr. A/fpcoTTjpioj, the extremity of anything.) The pedestals, often withoutbase or cornice, placed on the centre and sides of pediments for the reception of say
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. f^r tr^. x ?-T. Fig. 13G1. The Acropolis at .\tl;ens. strength. The most celebrated were those at Athens, Corintli, and Ithome; the twolatter were called the horns of the Peloponnesus, as though their possession couldsecure the submission of the whole peninsula. AcROTERiA. (Gr. A/fpcoTTjpioj, the extremity of anything.) The pedestals, often withoutbase or cornice, placed on the centre and sides of pediments for the reception of says that the lateral acroteria ought to be half the height of the tympanum,and the apex acroterium should be an eighth part more. No regular proportion, how-ever, is observable in Grecian buildirgs. The word acroterium is applied to the ridge of a building ; it has also been used tosignify the statues on the pedestals; but it is only to these latter that it is strictlyapplicable. The word has, moreover, been given to the small pieces of wall in balus-trades, between the pedestal and the balusters, and again to the pinnacles or otherornaments which stand in r
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