octastyle
Americanadjective
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It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
There is no example of this sort in Rome, but in Athens there is the octastyle in the precinct of the Olympian.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In other words Agrippa’s portico was decastyle; the actual portico is octastyle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
The Parthenon was of the Doric order of architecture, and was of the form termed peripteral octastyle; that is to say, it was surrounded by a colonnade, which had eight columns at each end.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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