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KaryatidsCaryatids

Columns shaped to look like women draped in flowing dresses.

The most famous Karyatids are the ones which were placed in the southern portico of the Erekhtheum (Erechtheum) on the Akropolis (Acropolis) in Athens; the Karyatids are representative of Artemis as the Maiden of Karyae (Caryae), i.e. a city in Lakonia (Laconia).

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