An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 29
les on a roof (Fig. 29). They were alsoused in ancient times for decorating the ridgeof a roof. ^Ye possess specimens of antefixaremarkable for delicacy of design and execution ;such were the antefixa of the temple of DianaPropylaia at Eleusis, and the various Etruscanspecimens to be found in our… … placed against an outer wranean constructions, such Fig. 2 J. Archaic Antefi.\a in terra cotta. seen at the Louvre, and in the museums ofPerugia, Florence, and Najiles. The Antefixaof the Parthenon were of marble. (Fig. 30.) Antemural. A term referring either to the out-%\ (.ir]<s ]irolecting…
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