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A caryatid ([Καρυάτις, plural: Καρυάτιδες] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyae", an ancient town of Peloponnese.also in greece there was miths that a great warior helped help them in there battles his name was tarik