Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quadruple arch marking, and covering, the intersection of two avenues in an old Roman city.
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It has a monumental entrance, a domed tetrapylon flanked by two large windows opening onto the atrium, and we found fragments of a polychrome mosaic once covering the floor of a room above it (see Domestic Area, August 7-18, 2005).
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Where the Street of the Columns was crossed by another, coming from the west a tetrapylon marked the intersection; one superb marble column of it still remains in situ, 23 feet high, leaning against a fine wall of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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About one-third of the way along the colonnaded street is the reconstructed tetrapylon, a large structure used to mark a junction of thoroughfares.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Beyond the tetrapylon the main street continues for another 500m, this stretch has seen much less excavation and reconstruction, and is littered with tumbled columns and assorted blocks of masonary.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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