Accessoria

- a one floor or two-floor structure divided into three or more housing units, eachhousing unit having its own
separate entrance from the outside. Another name for accessoria isrow house.

Alternate title: atlantes

Atlas, plural Atlantes, in architecture, male figure used as a column to support an entablature,
balcony, or other projection, originating in the Classical architecture of antiquity. Such figures are
posed as if supporting great weights (e.g., Atlas bearing the world). The related telamon of
Roman architecture, the male counterpart of the caryatid, is also a weight-bearing figure but
does not usually appear in an atlas pose.
The earliest known examples of true atlantes occur on a colossal scale in the Greek temple of
Zeus (c. 500 BC) at Agrigentum (Agrigento), Sicily. Atlantes were used only rarely in the Middle
Ages but reappeared in the Mannerist and Baroque periods.