A bust or figure of the upper part of the human body springing out of a plain block of rectangular form, pilaster, or the lower part of a console, bracket, or the like; a terminal figure. 2. A stone used by the ancients to mark a territorial boundary; frequently a short inverted obelisk, surmounted by busts of human beings or fauns. (Harris, 1977)
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