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Only one of its Atlases, or telamones, remains even semi-intact.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020

Reassembled fragments from eight of the telamones are to be arranged on shelves within a steel-ribbed contemporary sculpture in the shape of the damned Titan.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020

There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio