An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
An example.
"for example" or "for the sake of an example": used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples.