peribolos

Definitions

noun In Greek antiquity, a consecrated court or inclosure, generally surrounded by a wall, and often containing a temple, statues, etc.
noun Hence The outer inclosure of an early Christian chruch, which constitued the utmost bounds allowed for refuge or sanctuary. Also peribolus.

noun In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.

noun architecture, historical An enclosed court, especially one surrounding a temple.

From Ancient Greek περίβολος (peribolos).

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Hesychius mentions [143] the Limnae as a locality where the Lenaea were held, and says that the Lenaeum was a large peribolus within the city, in which was the sanctuary of Dionysus Lenaeus, and that the Athenians held contests in this peribolos before they built the theatre.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various
What M. Naville actually found under the mounds of Maskhûtah was a peribolos wall, the site of a temple, a dromos, a camp, some ruins of a city, and a series of most

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891
The peribolos wall, twenty-four feet in thickness, enclosed a quadrangular space of about fifty-five thousand square yards.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891
It was an open temenos of an irregular, oval shape, surrounded by a peribolos wall ot red earth.

Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
_mensæ ponderariæ_, almost perfect, were found in the portico or peribolos of the Temple of Hercules, adjoining the cathedral of S. Lorenzo.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888