Lexicographical Neighbors of Antefixal
Literary usage of Antefixal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1903)
"Comic mask within an arched frame, as the last. Ht. 5 in. Pierced with a hole
for suspension. III. ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS (0661-776). I. antefixal ORNAMENTS ..."
2. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"... Orvieto,4 Pitigliano,5 and Luni (see below), and from Conca or Satricum,' the
latter being chiefly antefixal ornaments of the ordinary Italian types. ..."
3. History of Ancient Pottery, Greek, Etrusean, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"... and unburnt bricks—Use of these in Greece—Methods of manufacture—Roof-tiles
and architectural decorations in terracotta—antefixal ornaments—Sicilian and ..."
4. Report on the Campana Collection by Charles Thomas Newton, Samuel Birch (1856)
"Youthful male head, from the crown of which issues an antefixal flower. ...
Entire antefixal tile; on the face, a female head between two lions' heads. Tav. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Collection of Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek by B. Hertz (1851)
"Stamped antefixal ornaments. 6 in. h. 166 KYLIX. Stamped bands. 4^ in. h. ...
Stamped in the centre with two antefixal ornaments, and two dolphins. ..."
6. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities by Arthur Hamilton Smith (1901)
"antefixal tile, terminating in a palmette springing from acanthus leaves.—Blacas
Coll. Parian marble. Height, 10 inches; length, 1 foot 3 inches. 1618. ..."
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