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Mate The: (Fig. - Vrould

The document defines and provides examples of different types of classical temple structures through diagrams and descriptions. It discusses prostyle temples which have columns in the front only, and amphiprostyle temples which have columns in both the front and back. It then describes a diastyle tetrastyle temple with four columns and intercolumniations of three diameters. A peripteral temple is defined as having six columns on the front and rear and eleven total columns evenly spaced around the structure to form a colonnade. An example hexastyle eustyle peripteral temple is shown with six columns in front spaced at two diameters and a quarter.

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Mate The: (Fig. - Vrould

The document defines and provides examples of different types of classical temple structures through diagrams and descriptions. It discusses prostyle temples which have columns in the front only, and amphiprostyle temples which have columns in both the front and back. It then describes a diastyle tetrastyle temple with four columns and intercolumniations of three diameters. A peripteral temple is defined as having six columns on the front and rear and eleven total columns evenly spaced around the structure to form a colonnade. An example hexastyle eustyle peripteral temple is shown with six columns in front spaced at two diameters and a quarter.

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GLOSSARY.
etylos
{fig.
1442),
wherein the cohimns b bh b -vrould mate that prostyles which,
but for them, would be merely a temple in antis. The arnphiprostylos then only
differs from the prostylos by having columns in the rear, repeated similarly to those in
tlie front. The
fig.
1444 applies on double the scale of the plans to hoth
figs. 1442 and
1443, and is a diastyle tetrastyle temple, that is, one whose intercolumiiiations (see
Colonnade) are of three diameters, and the number of whose columns is four.
A peripteral temple had six columns in front and rear, and eleven on the flanks, count-
ing the two columns on the angles (see
fig.
1445), and these were so placed that their
^a
distance from the wall was equal to an intercolumniation or space between the
columns
all round, and thus it formed a walk around the cell. In
fig.
1446 is the elcvalion
of
the species, which is hexastyle and eustyle, that is, with six columns in front,
whose
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c
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Fig. 1447.
Fig. U4S.
intercolumniation is eustyle, or of two diamofors and a quarter. (See Colonnadb.)
lu this figure, which is to a double scale of the plan, aaa are acruteria.

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