Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, falsely peripteral: noting a temple with a portico in front, or porticos in front and rear, but with the columns on its flanks engaged in the walls, in stead of standing free. Compare plan under opisthodomos.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end.
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- adjective having columniation completely circling an area of the structure
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Examples
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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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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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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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If the columns were replaced by engaged columns on the walls of the cells, the temple was a pseudo-peripteral temple.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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