Dodecastyle

From LoveToKnow 1911

DODECASTYLE (Gr. SWSErca, twelve, and vriAos, column), the architectural term given to a 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.


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