CARYATIDES

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 5

(Gr. icaova, a nut tree.) In Architecture, figures used instead of columns to support an emablature. The origin of them, according to Vitruvius. is as follows— "Carya, a city of Peloponnesus, took part with the Persians against the Grecian states. When the country was freed from its invaders, the Greeks turned their [s. 213]