Anthemion

ANTHEMION (from the Gr. iavOiiuov. a flower), the conventional design of flower or leaf forms which was largely employed by the Greeks to decorate (i) the fronts of ante-fixae, (2) the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones, (3) the necking of the Ionic columns of the Krrrht hrum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the tame, and (4) the cymatium of a cornice. Though generally known a* the honeysuckle ornament, from its resemblance to that flower, it* origin will be found in the flower of the acanthus plant.