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The
Southern
Prostasia,
that
is,
the
Erechtheion's
veil,
was
not
supported
by
columns
like
the
North,
but
by
the
Caryatids.
In
six
statues
which
in
antiquity
were
called
Kores.
The
name
Caryatides
referring
to
daughters
from
Karyes,
a
city
near
Sparta,
arose
later.
It
was
common
in
Ionic
buildings
to
replace
the
columns
with
Kores,
while
in
Doric
buildings
the
columns
were
replaced
with
men
called
Atlases.
Various
interpretations
have
been
attributed
to
the
Caryatids.
There
are
opinions
that
want
some
of
them
to
be
the
daughters
of
Cecrops,
elsewhere
it
is
stated
that
they
are
Arriphoros,
however
the
prevailing
opinion
about
the
Caryatids
of
Erechtheion
is
that
they
are
daughters
who
paid
honor
to
the
dead
king
Cecrops,
as
in
this
area
it
is
believed
that
his
grave
is
located.
It
is
assumed
that
he
created
the
Caryatids
in
the
5th
century
BC.
the
sculptor
Alcamenes
who
was
a
student
of
Pheidias
or
another
of
the
students
of
the
great
sculptor
of
antiquity,
possibly
Callimachus.
The
Caryatids
we
see
today
on
the
South
Prostrate
of
the
Erechtheum
are
modern
copies,
as
the
five
originals
have
been
moved
from
1979
indoors
to
protect
them
from
atmospheric
pollution.
They
are
prominently
placed
on
the
first
floor
of
the
Acropolis
Museum,
while
the
sixth
which
is
the
product
of
theft
by
Thomas
Bruce
in
1804
who
planned
to
dismember
and
extract
them
all.
It
is
in
the
British
Museum.