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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 105

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88 ARCHITECTURE CHAP. II is shown (PI. XIV) in the Maison Carree at Nimes. Such build-ings are in ancient terminology called pseudo-peripteral. Finally, … Fig. 13. Plan of Temple of Venus and Rome. the Roman temple, together with its portico, was often surroundedwith a peristyle. Of the three temples in the Forum Holitorium,(p. 34) two are completely peripteral (to use the ancient term),the third has columns on three sides only, the back wall…

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