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medallion

round or oval decoration used in architecture
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medallion

Summary

medallion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (131 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • medallion's genre is architectural sculpture[2].
  • medallion is a type of ornament[3].
  • medallion's Commons category is recorded as Medallions[4].
  • medallion's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[5].
  • medallion's shape is recorded as oval[6].
  • medallion's different from is recorded as medallion[7].

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Definition and Type

medallion is a type of ornament[3].

Why It Matters

medallion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (131 views/month).[1] medallion has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

Related Entities

Garges-lès-Gonesse

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). medallion. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/medallion-q115488
MLA “medallion.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/medallion-q115488.
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  1. 2d ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → ornament
    Genre → —
    Described by source → Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary
    Different from → medallion
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q318900, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
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