aniconic
adj/anʌɪˈkɒnɪk/UK
Etymology
Definitions
Of or pertaining to representations without human or animal form.
- aniconic worship
- While Father Kronos and the world he ruled, confident that the new anthropomorphism was destroyed, clung to the stone child, the aniconic pillar worship that expressed itself in the Bethels of the Semites and the Pillar Rooms at Knossos.
- With the notable exceptions of the painted ceilings in the Hall of the Kings and the sculpted lions that guard the fountain in the courtyard, the Alhambra is a strikingly aniconic building.
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