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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTHEMION (from the Gr. h.v8Epaw, a See also:flower)  , the conventional See also:design of See also:flower or See also:leaf forms which was largely employed by the Greeks to decorate (r) the fronts of ante-fixae, (2) the upper portion of the See also:stele or See also:vertical tombstones, (3) the necking 93 of the Ionic columns of the See also:Erechtheum and its continuation as a decorative See also:frieze on the walls of the same, and (4) the cymatium of a See also:cornice . Though generally known as the See also:honeysuckle See also:ornament, from its resemblance to that flower, its origin will be found in the flower of the See also:acanthus plant .

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