Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 48
It is a circular building, witha portico in front composed of sixteen Corinthian columns, eightcolumns of these are in front, and the remaining eight are arrangedbehind them. The interior of the temple is circular, covered with adome, one of the features for which modern architecture is indebtedto… … TEMPLE OF THE SIBYL AT TIVOLI. to admit light into the interior. The temples of Vesta and of theSibyl at Tivoli were circular peripteral. The circular cella of thetemple of Vesta is surrounded by a peristyle of twenty Corinthiancolumns. The entablature and ancient roof have disappeared. It…
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