Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a single row of columns on all sides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, surrounded by a single range of columns: said especially of a temple in which the cella is surrounded by columns. See cut under
opisthodomos . - noun Any peripteral building, especially a Greek or Roman temple with columns on every side. Also
peripteros . See cut at opisthodomus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See
apteral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective architecture Surrounded by a single row of
columns
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- adjective having columns on all sides
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Again, most of the Grecian Doric temples were peripteral, that is, were surrounded with pillars on all the sides.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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The pseudo-peripteral temple originated from southern Italy as a mixture between a Greek peripteros and an Italo-Etruscan podium temple.
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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.
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In the late fifth or early sixth century A.D., the abandoned peripteral temple was converted into a Christian tripartite transept-basilica, with a length of 31.30 meters and a width of 16.60 meters.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 1 2003
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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.
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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.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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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.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) Various
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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.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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