The golden volute, Provocator mirabilis, is a species of rare, large, deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes...
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addition, there are two display boxes on either side of the doors, with volutes on one of the boxes and stylized lions on the other box on either side...
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zelandica – spiny murex Volutidae Alcithoe arabica – Arabic volute Iredalina mirabilis – golden volute Olividae Amalda australis – southern olive Epitoniidae...
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The Derveni Krater is a volute krater, the most elaborate of its type, discovered in 1962 in a tomb at Derveni, not far from Thessaloniki, and displayed...
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Retrieved March 8, 2024. "'Maestro', Bradley Cooper è Bernstein e ci sono volute 5 ore di trucco per diventarlo". Repubblica TV - Repubblica (in Italian)...
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distinctive, typically with large menacing eyes, tripartite scroll-like (volute) noses, wide mouths with rictus-like grins or grimaces, lolling tongues...
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items were common. After restoration, the discovery includes seven sizable volute craters, two amphorae, two skyphoi, a hydria, a large plate, nine fish plates...
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American Journal of Archaeology 99.2 (April 1995:171–186) p. 177. E.g. as on a volute krater, ca 450 BC, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford G 275), Hurwit...
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rectangular panels. Depicted in the cruciform volute panels are scenes taken from the myth surrounding the "Golden Apples of Hesperides". Interspaced between...
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The Argonauts encounter him on their return voyage after obtaining the Golden Fleece. As the Argo approached Crete, Talos kept them at bay by hurling...
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arrows". She is called Artemis Chrysilakatos, of the golden shafts, or Chrysinios, of the golden reins, as a goddess of hunting in her chariot. The Homeric...
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lugs continued until the 1st century BC. Volute, Early Imperial With spiral, scroll-like ornaments called volutes extending from their nozzles, these lamps...
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Mesopotamian religions Irkalla Last Judgment Osiris Saveasi'uleo Shiva The Golden Bough (mythology) Yama (East Asia) Pluto Varuna The word used in the ancient...
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concholepas — loco or Chilean abalone Cymbium cymbium — false elephant's snout volute Dolabrifera dolabrifera Ensis ensis — razor clam Extra extra Ficus ficus...
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rail system, aluminum alloy cylinder head, double overhead cam system and volute casing fixed geometry turbocharger or electronically controlled variable...
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described as Perso-Ionic, with a strong Greek stylistic influence, including volute, bead and reel, meander or honeysuckle designs. This monumental piece of...
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ISBN 978-0-00-744847-0. "Lyle's Golden Syrup tin (image)". Lyle's Golden Syrup. Retrieved 20 February 2024. "Tate & Lyle's Golden Syrup rebrand drops dead lion"...
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plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree, c. 9th–8th century B.C." www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-04-19....
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of the violin family. The scroll is typically carved in the shape of a volute (a rolled-up spiral) according to a canonical pattern, although some violins...
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includes two kinds of 3-dimensional relatives of spirals: A conical or volute spring (including the spring used to hold and make contact with the negative...
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employed by ancient Greek architects as particularly in evidence in the volutes of capitals of the Ionic and Corinthian Orders. 1 φ = φ − 1 ; φ = 1 + 5...
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by Eric Gethyn-Jones (1979). The school is noted for its use of stepped volute capitals and its stylised "tree of life" motif on tympana. A lead tablet...
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US$220,000 (US$4,830,504 in 2023 dollars), featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. The music...
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grown with beads. Trade names of cultured pearls are Akoya (阿古屋), white or golden South sea, and black Tahitian. Most beadless cultured pearls are mantle-grown...
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its length. The high façade is in Classicist style and runs out in large volutes above the cornice. There is a clock in the centre of the gable. The ridge...
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low curved quadrant walls. An oval cylinder encases the dome, and large volutes transfer the lateral thrust. The main façade to the street has an aedicular...
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in blue a golden, richly arranged and of window and door fifteenfold black perforated with volute gable and two with Knauf and cross at golden towers; between...
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Alexandrian architects developed new shapes such as segmental, broken, hollow and volute pediments and curved arched, concave and broken entablatures. These baroque...
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Quetzalcoatl wears around his neck the breastplate ehēcacōzcatl, "the spirally voluted wind jewel". This talisman was a conch shell cut at the cross-section and...
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tiers; the lower end of each coping is terminated by a large and graceful volute; this kind of ornamental stairs, with minor differences in details, may...
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