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Peripteral
Peripteral Pe*rip"ter*al, a. [Gr., fr. ? + ? feather, wing, row of columns.] (Arch.) Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.

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- Retrieved 2007-11-06. peripteros.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pseudo-peripteral". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. v t...
- probably peripteral was built in the 7th century BC, with an inner row of wooden columns over its Geometric predecessor. It was rebuilt peripteral around...
- times, when a peripteral temple with a floor of hard-packed clay was constructed in the second half of the 8th century BC. The peripteral temple at Ephesus...
- to Hephaestus; it remains standing largely intact today. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens,...
- A pseudoperipteros (Gr****: ψευδοπερίπτερος, meaning "falsely peripteral") is a building with engaged columns embedded in the outer walls, except the front...
- columns, like those of the Temple on the Ilissus in Athens.(Figure 4.) Peripteral hexastyle describes a temple with a single row of peripheral columns around...
- The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripteral sine postico hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the 1st century, which was in...
- that surrounds the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., (in style a peripteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade. As well as the traditional...
- Aetolia in the middle of 7th century BC century. c.640-630 BC. It was a peripteral narrow wooden structure dedicated to Apollo, It measured 12.13 X38.23...
- was termed prostyle and if columns surrounded the temple it was termed peripteral. Anta capital Ancient Gr**** architecture Henry Ellis (sir); British museum...