frieze
Example Sentences
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"It is marvellous that Sicilian and Italian friends thought to bring it back where it was born," Acropolis Museum Director Nikolaos Stampolidis said of the fragment, once part of the temple's eastern frieze.
From Reuters
The frieze depicted a procession in honor of Athena.
From Seattle Times
The sculptures — 17 figures from the building’s pediments and part of the frieze — have been the subject of a long dispute between Britain and Greece, which has renewed its bid to bring the marbles home.
From Seattle Times
Outside a Brooklyn housing project, an important Harlem Renaissance stone frieze from 1938 honoring African Americans is deteriorating.
From New York Times
The coiffures are so extravagantly architectonic that the models end up looking as stately as Benin bronzes or divinities from some 18th dynasty frieze.
From New York Times
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