Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Antefixa

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Antefixa

Terra-cottas exhibiting various ornamental designs, and used in architecture to cover the frieze (zophorus) of the entablature.

Antefixa. (British Museum.)

They were probably Etruscan in their origin, and were used by the Greeks. The specimen here given represents Athené superintending the construction of the ship Argo.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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