Caryatides
Caryatides , noun, plural
[Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} ({not transcribed}) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Carya (Greek {not transcribed}), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids.]
(Arch) Caryatids.
Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians.