acroterion

architectural ornament on a flat pedestal mounted at the apex or corner of the pediment of a building
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acroterion

Summary

acroterion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • acroterion's image is recorded as Acroterion detail Nicosia.jpg[2].
  • acroterion's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85000672[3].
  • acroterion's subclass of is recorded as architectural element[4].
  • acroterion's subclass of is recorded as architectural sculpture[5].
  • acroterion's Commons category is recorded as Acroterion[6].
  • acroterion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03hwy2[7].
  • acroterion's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300002214[8].
  • acroterion's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0219690[9].
  • acroterion's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0219689[10].
  • acroterion's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0219688[11].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[14].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • acroterion's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • acroterion's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/acroterion[19].
  • acroterion's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'grc', 'text': 'τὸ ἀκρωτήριον'}[20].
  • acroterion's EAGLE id is recorded as objtyp/lod/4[21].
  • acroterion's time period is recorded as classical antiquity[22].
  • acroterion's time period is recorded as early modern period[23].
  • acroterion's culture is recorded as Ancient Greece[24].
  • acroterion's culture is recorded as Etruscans[25].
  • acroterion's culture is recorded as Ancient Rome[26].

Why It Matters

acroterion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month).[1] acroterion has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] acroterion is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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