Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Prostypum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PROS'TYPUM (πρόστυπον, Callix. ap. Athen. v. 30.). The reading adopted in some editions of Pliny (H. N. xxxv. 43.) instead of protypum, and interpreted to mean images in low relief (basso-rilievo), as contradistinguished from such as are executed in high relief (alto-rilievo).