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Marked by columniation consisting of a completely surrounding double row of free columns.

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  • CONNALLY: Very strange, dipteral, unbelievable, like something that couldn't have happened, just couldn't have happened.
  • The dipteral also is octastyle in both front and rear porticoes, but it has two rows of columns all round the temple, like the temple of
  • In everything else it is the same as the dipteral, but inside it has two tiers of columns set out from the wall all round, like the colonnade of
  • Hence it was that when, about four hundred years later, King Antiochus promised to pay the expenses of that work, the huge cella, the surrounding columns in dipteral...
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