Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ectype

Ectype , noun

[Compare French ectype. See Ectypal.]

1.
(a) (Classical Archaeology) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:
(b)
(Classical Archaeology) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
2.
A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets. — Eng. Cyc.