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Amphiprostyle   Listen
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Amphiprostyle  adj.  (Arch.) Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... would be a double templum in antis. In Fig. 48 the vestibules are formed by rows of columns extending across the whole width of the cella, whose side walls are not prolonged. Did a vestibule exist at the front only, the temple would be called prostyle; as it is, it is amphiprostyle. Only small Greek temples have as simple a plan as those just described. Larger temples are peripteral, i.e., are surrounded by a colonnade or peristyle (Figs. 49. 50). In Fig. 49 the cella with its vestibules ...
— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell



Words linked to "Amphiprostyle" :   amphistylar, porticoed, apteral



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