Again, most of the Grecian Doric temples were peripteral, that is, were surrounded with pillars on all the sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
A temple will be peripteral that has six columns in front and six in the rear, with eleven on each side including the corner columns. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The pseudo-peripteral temple originated from southern Italy as a mixture between a Greek peripteros and an Italo-Etruscan podium temple. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008] Reference
There are also circular temples, some of which are constructed in monopteral form, surrounded by columns but without a cella, while others are termed peripteral. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Behind this pediment is a cupola, finished by a lantern light, in imitation of a peripteral temple, crowning and ornamenting a grand octagonal vestibule, or saloon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)] Reference
It was a peripteral octostyle, of the Doric order, with seventeen columns on the sides, each six feet two inches in diameter at the base, and thirty-four feet in height, elevated on three steps. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
At Sagalassos, the podium was absent, as was also the case in the mid-Hellenistic Temple of Leto at the Letoön in Xanthos (Lycia), which has a pseudo-peripteral arrangement at the back of its naos. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008] Reference
As it is almost excluded that nothing of a potential Augustan peripteros was preserved, one has to reconstruct the Augustan Temple of Apollo Klarios as a simple naos of which the facade of the pronaos was shaped as a pseudo-peripteral naos (this means with attached half-columns instead of free standing ones) with smooth half-columns projecting from the antae and fluted half-column on either side of the door, all columns being crowned by Ionic half-capitals. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008] Reference
Larger temples are peripteral, i.e., are surrounded by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
Thothmes II. and III. with peripteral sekos; also Pavilion of. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The Ionic order was much used in the Greek cities of Asia Minor for peripteral temples. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference
If the columns were replaced by engaged columns on the walls of the cells, the temple was a pseudo-peripteral temple. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
They belong to the period 470-450 B.C.; they are all hexastyle and peripteral, and without triglyphs on the cella wall. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The temple of Aphaia is built on the Doric peripteral style with 32 columns twelve on each side and six at the front and back. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
It was an octastyle peripteral temple, with seventeen columns on the side, and measured 220 by 100 feet on the top of the stylobate. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Apparently, according to George Taylor, the Roman temples in Lebanon are of three types: the antae, the prostylos, and the peripteral. From Wordnik.com. [news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs] Reference
At Philæ are two structures, one by Nectanebo, the other Ptolemaic, resembling peripteral temples, but without cella-chambers or roofs. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
In Greece proper there is no known instance of a peripteral Ionic temple, but the order was sometimes used for small prostyle and amphiprostyle buildings, such as the Temple of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
In the latter, excepting in the prostyle temple, the front had hardly any distinctive characteristic, in the peripteral, amphiprostyle, and other temples the back and front were alike. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
If it be added that upon the apex and the lower corners of the pediment there were commonly pedestals which supported statues or other ornamental objects (Fig. 52), mention will have been made of all the main features of the exterior of a Doric peripteral temple. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
Among them are a Roman bridge and a rock-hewn theatre, with nine tiers of seats and an orchestra fifty-seven feet in diameter, also a nymphaeum, an aqueduct, a large prostyle temple with portico and colonnades, and a peripteral temple preceded by a double colonnade. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
In the earlier peripteral temples, as at Selinus, the triglyph-frieze is retained around the cella-wall under the ceiling of the colonnade, where it has no functional significance, as a survival from times antedating the adoption of the colonnade, when the tradition of a wooden roof-construction showing externally had not yet been forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
III.); of Soleb and Sesebi in Nubia; of Elephantine (peripteral); the tomb temple of Deir-el-Bahari, the Ramesseum, the Amenopheum; hemispeos at Gherf Hossein; two grotto temples at Ipsamboul. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Some of the larger temples were peripteral. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
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