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Architrave

Architecture; General architecture

The architrave is the lowest element of the entablature, and rests on top columns.

Formeret

Architecture; General architecture

French term for the wall-rib carrying the web or filling-in of a vault.

Diastyle

Architecture; General architecture

Term used to designate an intercolumniation of three or four diameters.

Temple in which the columns surrounding the naos have had walls built between them, so that they become engaged columns, as in the great temple at Agrigentum. In Roman temples, in order to increase ...

Dodecastyle

Architecture; General architecture

Temple where the portico has twelve columns in front, as in the portico added to the Temple of Demeter at Eleusis, designed by Philo, the architect of the arsenal at the Peiraeus.

Cleithral

Architecture; General architecture

Term applied to a covered Greek temple, in contradistinction to hypaethral, which designates one that is uncovered; the roof of a cleithral temple completely covers it.