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  • noun architecture A four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an Ancient Greek peripteros temple.
  • noun medicine An inactive phase of vasoconstriction in inflammation.

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Examples

  • A major renovation of the temple, after the disastrous earthquake, involved the construction of a new peristasis for the current columns and the plain entablature, as well as the placement of marble wall veneer (skoutlosis in Greek) inside.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 1 2003

  • On top of the Ionic capitals of the peristasis (external colonnade), an entablature consisting of an architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice, all undecorated except for false lion spouts on the cornice, supported a steep undecorated gable.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 1 2003

  • When the shrine eventually was turned into a basilica, the cella blocks were reused for the outside walls of the church and the peristasis was reused inside for the colonnades of the basilica, dividing the nave from the side aisles.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Report 3 2003

  • The latter could be dated on stylistic grounds to a first repair of the temple that consisted of erecting a new peristasis (external colonnade) and of placing marble veneer against the interior walls.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Report 3 2003

  • T. Flavius Collega and his wife thus paid for rebuilding the 6 by 11 column peristasis.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies 2003

  • The cause, therefore, corresponds to the Greek _upostasis_ (subject), the _negotium_ to _peristasis_ (surroundings).

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Claudium Ftaecum legi eliam in numo Antonini Pii apad ean - dem Euotrpiam signato, quem edidit Arigonius, quae peristasis Antinoo non qnidem prodest, sed neqoe mnltum ad -

    Doctrina numorum veterum 1792

  • Halfway in between the reign of the latter (A.D. 54-68) and the construction of the Macellum ca. 180-191 (see Macellum: July 30-August 3, 2006), the rebuilding of the peristasis (colonnade) of the Temple of Apollo Klarios at Sagalassos and the covering of its internal walls with marble veneer, had cost in A.D. 103-104, besides the not specified amount of money contributed from their own fortune by T. Flavius Collega and his wife, another 10,000 denarii.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Macellum Report 5 2003

  • Gonstanter abest. £t haec quidem tam eapitia, quam epigraphes peristasis ob - serTatur adhac in nonnnUis consulatus III.numis. £x quo manifestam, pri - mis consalattts III* annis retentum ad - huc yeterem et capitis, et inscriptionis a) L.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

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