Zophorus
ζῳοφόρος
Zophorus (ζῳοφόρος), bearing animals or figures, of a panel or relief; hence especially applied to the continuous carved frieze of the Ionic and Corinthian orders, while in Doric buildings the triglyphs and metopes take the place of this member. (Vitr. 3.5, 10.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.