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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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(zôiphoros). “Bearing animals”; a Zophŏrus
word applied to a panel or relief, and hence used of the continuous carved frieze of the Ionic and Corinthian architecture, which represents the triglyphs and metopes of the Doric buildings (Vitruv. iii. 5, 10).
Zophorus.
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Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.