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Pseudoperipteros
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[German version]

Architectural term, recorded in Vitruvius (4,8,6), describing Italo-Roman temples (Temple) in which the side columns of the porch continue as half-columns on the central wall around the cella, and thus form a  'false' peristyle without a true ambulatory (Greek pterón) (Peripteros). The best-known examples are the Maison Carrée in Nîmes (Nemausus [2]) and the Ionic temple in the Forum Boarium in Rome.

Bibliography

Ch. Balty, Études sur la Maison Carrée de Nîmes, 1960 (on this type) 

R. Amy, P. Gros, La Maison Carrée de Nîmes (Gallia S…

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Höcker, Christoph (Kissing), “Pseudoperipteros”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1012570>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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