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pseudodipteral

[ soo-doh-dip-ter-uhl ]

adjective

Architecture.
  1. having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pseudodipteral1

1690–1700; < Greek ܻǻíٱ ( os ) ( pseudo-, dipteral ) + -al 1
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Pseudodipteral temple, 75, 78, 82.

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First there is the temple in antis, or ναος ἑν παραστἁσιν as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.

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The pseudodipteral is so constructed that in front and in the rear there are in each case eight columns, with fifteen on each side, including the corner columns.

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These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

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These ideas are developed, as I have described, in the pseudodipteral arrangement of a temple.

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