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    The naiskos (pl.: naiskoi; Greek: ναΐσκος, diminutive of ναός, "temple") is a small temple in classical order with columns or pillars and pediment. Often...
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    of the oracle spring, the laurel tree and the naiskos with the cult statue. The foundations of the naiskos are 8.24 meters wide and 14.23 meters long. This...
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    The Funerary naiskos of Aristonautes is a funerary monument dating to around 320 BC, on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAMA)...
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    not present in the newer naiskos, as both sisters are now dead, and neither has to say goodbye. The heads of the older naiskos, now kept in the Archaeological...
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  • Temple of Athena Nike now visible on the site or a small-scale predecessor (naiskos) whose remains were found in the later temple's foundations. An inscription...
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    Golden naiskos with Dionysus, 2nd cent. BC....
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    ebony or blackened grapewood cult statue was sculpted by Endoios, and a naiskos to house it was erected east of the open-air altar. A rich foundation deposit...
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    monumental rock-cut images in the Phrygian highlands. She stands alone within a naiskos, which represents her temple or its doorway, and is crowned with a polos...
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    A youth pours a libation to the deceased within a naiskos, a scene that may also represent Ganymede serving Zeus (Apulian red-figure krater, 340–320 BC)...
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    since ancient times. One of these, the so-called Tomb of Theron, is a naiskos sepulchre with square plan. Gate IV is located near the tomb of Theron:...
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    Funerary naiskos of Demetria and Pamphile....
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    The Naiskos crater from Berlin showing scenes of the underworld....
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    Antinous Capitoline Venus Daidala Diadumenos Dipylon inscription Funerary naiskos of Aristonautes Funerary Stela of Demokleides Great Eleusinian Relief Group...
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    pedestal with steps. On top of that, there are three statues inside an Ionic naiskos (a small temple). The three statues inside are of a family. The one on...
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    Pentelic marble. It stands 1.49m high and 0.92m wide, in the form of a naiskos, with pilasters and a pediment featuring palmette acroteria. The relief...
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    open-air monument, or a covered building with columns and pediment of the naiskos type. The excellent state of conservation of the sculpture's surface suggests...
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    that came from Kerameikos. Notable styles found in Kerameikos include the naiskos stele, lekythos graves, and kore. Some grave-markers in Kerameikos were...
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    does not offer unequivocal evidence. The relief may have been part of a naiskos (small shrine), as indicated by the nearby remnant of a small Ionic column...
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    number of temene adjacent to the Temple of Athena Polias or a tetrastyle naiskos. To the south of the Erechtheion site would have been the Dörpfeld Foundations...
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    adorned with acroteria, which gives it a religious aspect with reference to naiskos, a small temple in the classical order. The Dexileos stele reflects Athens...
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    granite pebble with figure of deity. 5th century BCE Miniature Punic chapel (naïskos) Priest's stele, discovered in Carthage in 1921. (3rd century BCE. J.-C...
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    consists of naiskos scenes (scenes showing the statue of a deceased person in a naos, a miniature temple or shrine). Most often the naiskos scene occupies...
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  • object. The back shows a globe inside a crescent. 1924 Sidon Louvre none Naiskos in which is a throne with two sphinxes. Above the seat, U-shaped cavity...
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    "Norman Lloyd, distinguished actor whose character introduced the Kurlan naiskos to Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died at 106". www.dailystartreknews...
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  • the smaller figure of Kufaws in a daughter-mother pairing in a c. 400 BC naiskos from Sardis. Artimus was also a protector of the dead, and she was invoked...
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    such structures are often depicted in scenes connected with burial rites (naiskos vases). Important representatives of this style are the Ilioupersis Painter...
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    painter. The tomb naiskos consists of two columns with Ionic-style features, which were also highlighted with white paint. Within the naiskos, there is an...
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  • where it protrudes in a flattened relief) Type III: niche monuments or naiskos (type III 1, with a rectangular or trapezoidal niche, and III 2, niche...
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    earlier dating it is assumed that the relief belonged to a large grave naiskos; supporters of the later dating often connect it with the funerary monument...
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    altar in the middle. At the end of the second century BC it burned down. A naiskos (small temple) was built in its stead, but it was never finished. In the...
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