1. Pentelic marble Caryatid from the Erechtheion

2. The most famous Caryatids are from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens

3. Caryatid (right view), South Porch of the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, marble, 421-407 B.C.E

4. Erechtheion is known for the Caryatids; Karyatid means 'Karian girl' and forms a special form of Koreans

5. The ancient city of the Acropolis includes the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Propylea

6. Caryatids of Erechtheion A Caryatid is a name given to a column in the form of a standing female figure

7. Caryatid (South Porch) and Ionic Column (North Porch), Erechtheion on the Acropolis, Athens, marble, 421-407 B.C.E., Classical Period (British Museum, London); Mnesicles may have been the architect

8. The Porch of the Caryatids is part of the Erechtheion, which is an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens in Greece, which was dedicated to Athena and Poseidon

9. This caryatid is one of six elegant female figures who supported the roof of the south porch of the Erechtheion (figures who do the work of columns—carrying a roof—are called Caryatids)

10. The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, active 1858 - 1860s) 28.1 × 39.1 cm (11 1/16 × 15 3/8 in.) 84.XM.366.8 Open Content images tend to be large in file-size.

11. When we look at it as an architectural term, it is the name given to the carrier elements in the form of a woman statue, and the folds of the clothes they carry on are reminiscent of the grooves in the columns, and the Erechtheion Caryatids

12. Carved, draped, straight, standing female figure (cora), supporting on its head an astragal (enriched with bead-and-reel), ovolo (enriched with egg-and-dart), and square abacus, used as a substitute for a column, and supporting an entablature.The best-known example of the use of Caryatids in Greek Antiquity was the south porch of the Erechtheion, Athens (c.421