peristasis

The naos is enclosed on all four sides by the peristasis, usually a single row, rarely a double one, of columns.

If such a hall of columns surrounds a patio or garden, it is called a peristyle rather than a peristasis.

As a result, the 'cella' walls lost their fixed connection with the columns for a long time and could be freely placed within the 'peristasis'.

"Pronaos" and "opisthodomos" were often closed off from the peristasis by wooden barriers or fences.

Like the cella, the "peristasis" could serve the display and storage of votives, often placed between the columns.

By this time the area was known as Tristatis, Peristasis and also Agorà.

The resulting set of porticos surrounding the temple on all sides (the peristasis) was exclusively used for temples in Greek architecture.

A "pseudodipteros" lacks the inner row of columns in its "peristasis", but has porches of double width.

Instead of longer "antae", there are "prostyle" colonnades inside the "peristasis" on the front and back, reflecting Ionic habits.

A group of very squat and broad capitals with wide echinus are also ascribed to the early structure, suggesting that it had a hexastyle peristasis.

Above the architrave of the 'peristasis', there was a figural frieze of 137 m length, depicting the amazonomachy.

The 'peristasis' could also be used for cult processions, or simply as shelter from the elements, a function emphasised by Vitruvius (III 3, 8f).

Metropolis of Myriophyton and Peristasis : Irinaios Ioannidis (2000-)

This small ionic prostyle temple had engaged columns along the sides and back, the "peristasis" was thus reduced to a mere hint of a full portico facade.

The Greek Orthodox diocese became in January 1909 an autocephalous metropolitan see, the Metropolitanate of Myriophyton and Peristasis.

While the load-bearing parts and internal supports were made of blue Acropolis limestone, the foundations of the surrounding peristasis were of poros limestone.

The see was later transferred to Myriophyton, and renamed Peristasis and Myriophyton, mentioned first in a Notitia episcopatuum of the end of the fifteenth century.

In the sixteenth century Myriophytum displaced Peristasis, and the diocese took the name of Myriophyturn and Peristasis.

A small temple at Kournó has a peristasis of merely 6 x 7 columns, a stylobate of only 8 x 10 m and corners executed as pilasters towards the front.

It has a rather simplistic appearance with symmetrical frontages towards the city and the countryside consisting of an Ionic peristasis supporting a triangular tympanum in pink Baveno granite.

The "peristasis" was of equal depth on all sides, eliminating the usual emphasis on the front, an "opisthodomos", integrated into the back of the cella, is the first proper example in Ionic architecture.

The arrangement of the "pseudodipteros", omitting the interior row of columns while maintaining a "peristasis" with the width of two column distances, produces a massively broadened portico, comparable to the contemporaneous hall architecture.

This relationship between the axes of walls and columns, almost a matter of course in smaller structures, remained undefined and without fixed rules for nearly a century: the position of the "naos" "floated" within the "peristasis".

Wilhelm Dörpfeld assumed that the original structure was a double temple in antis, dating to about 570 BC, lengthened and broadened by the addition of the peristasis under Peisistratus, between 529 and 520 BC.

The cella, preceded by a pronaos, is accessed by a single step; also existing are the pylons with the stairs which allowed to reach the roof and, over the cella's walls and in the blocks of the peristasis entablature, the holes for the wooden beam of the ceiling.