pediment

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He belongs in Athens, in the Acropolis Museum, anchoring the West Pediment of the Parthenon.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2019

On he goes, the little one, Bud of the universe, Pediment of life.

From Tortoises by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

This Pediment is crown'd with three fine Statues of Brass, which denote Justice, Power and Plenty.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

The Part which projects from the principal Front, is terminated by a Pediment, which is a grand Piece of Sculpture.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

ART AND ARCHITECTURE.—Groups of Statuary for the Pediment of the House of Parliament in Vienna.—2 engravings.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various