peripteral

• “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.

• “The pseudo-peripteral temple originated from southern Italy as a mixture between a Greek peripteros and an Italo-Etruscan podium temple.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008

• “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.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008

• “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.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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)

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