She suddenly realized that Julian was still talking about the naiskos.

"The naiskos were never native to Kurl," he said slowly.

"The naiskos fragment we found is twelve thousand years old.

And then her eyes were open again, and she focused on the naiskos fragment in her palm.

Dropping the naiskos fragment back into her pocket, she quickly tapped her combadge.

"Just that this piece is a fragment of the outer covering of an ancient Kurlan naiskos."

"The philosophy behind the naiskos makes me wonder if the Kurlans might not have been a joined species, like the Trill."

The second level is made up of a temple-like colonnade (naiskos); the columns on each side are Ionic.

Picard carefully replaced the top portion of the naiskos, containing the community within, restoring the balance of the piece.

Dax again raised the naiskos fragment.

That was the purpose of the naiskos: to remind those who saw it that each person is made up of a community of individuals.

Bobbie Ray glanced at his Naiskos.

Most often the naiskos scene occupies one side of the vase, while a mythological scene occupies the other.

She stands alone within a naiskos, which represents her temple or its doorway, and is crowned with a polos, a high, cylindrical hat.

Her other hand, the one that still sported an angry red phaser burn, absent-mindedly played with the fragment from the Kurlan naiskos.

Bobbie Ray made a show of removing his Naiskos from the table and tucking it safely back in his bag.

The most common motifs are naiskos and grave scenes, dionysiac scenes and symposia.

"The Kurls made Naiskos.

Picard nodded, thinking of the many small sculptures inside his Kurlan naiskos, representing the many facets of the personality.

Since 360 BCE, such structures are often depicted in scenes connected with burial rites (naiskos vases).

"It's called a naiskos, a little shrine with two columns supporting a pediment and a group of three-dimensional figures," Mr. Bernheimer said.

He looked down at his desk, letting his fingers lightly trace the outline of the ceramic Kurlan naiskos displayed there in its place of honor.

Often the subject matter consists of naiskos scenes (scenes showing the statue of a deceased person in a naos, a miniature temple or shrine).

A new ebony or blackened grapewood cult statue was sculpted by Endoios, and a naiskos to house it was erected east of the open-air altar.

In contrast to other contemporary painters, sepulchral scenes (naiskos vases) by him are rare; where such motifs occur, they are virtually always on the back of the vessel.