The bases of the columns of the portico still remain in situ, as also one of the antae in solid masonry; and as these in their relative position and height are in exact accordance with those represented on the tomb of Darius (fig.
It will have a portico of two columns, and two antae of Portland stone, of the height of the ground story, which is very lofty, and the width of the entire compartment of the front.
The deep recesses formed by the projection of the antae provide suitable niches for the reception of statues.
The twelve sculptured metopes of the temple do not belong to the exterior frieze, whose metopes were plain, but to a second frieze, placed above the columns and antae of pronaos and opisthodomos.
Here the side walls of the cella are prolonged in front and terminate in antae (see below, page 88).
Ionic temple, the antae and columns of the vestibules are in line with columns of the outer row, at both the ends and the sides; in Fig.
The brickwork of the antae was originally faced with marble, and they supported arches which led into the colonnades along the line of the street.
The antae of the gateway are not represented, and the corner column of the Temple of Juno is omitted.
It consisted of four columns placed on each side between two antae or projecting piers ornamented with pilasters, and was of larger dimensions than the colonnades to which it formed the entrance.
The three intercolumniations between the antae and the columns should be closed by low walls made of marble or of joiner's work, with doors in them to afford passages into the pronaos.
Let the remaining three parts, constituting the pronaos, extend to the antae terminating the walls, which antaeought to be of the same thickness as the columns.
The walls of the cella itself should be thick in proportion to its size, provided that their antae are kept of the same thickness as the columns.
These return from the columns which stand third on the inner side to the antae which project from the pronaos, and which touch the edges of the hemicycle at right and left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
