It is customary to measure the intercolumniationin terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom.
The body of the church, which is nearly a parallelogram, is divided into five unequal aisles (the centre being the largest) by four rows of Corinthian columns, within one intercolumniationfrom the east end.
In this peristyle every fourthintercolumniation is filled up solid, with a niche, and connection is provided between it and the wall of the lower cone.
The pycnostyle is a temple in an intercolumniation of which the thickness of a column and a half can be inserted: for example, the temple of the Divine Caesar, that of Venus in Caesar's forum, and others constructed like them.
Those who make the number of columns double, seem to be in error, because then the length seems to be one intercolumniation longer than it ought to be.
Defn: A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.
Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom.
A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.
At the west end of the façade, in the first intercolumniation of the blind arcade, there is a gateway 1·90 metres wide, covered by a pointed arch.
A similar gateway seems to have existed in the second intercolumniation from the east end, but the façade here is much ruined.
In the Storied tomb, where there are four doors, the two central entrances are higher than the others, and, in the upper story, the central intercolumniation is wider than those on either side.
On the east side there is a doorway in the third intercolumniation from the south end (Plate 26, Fig.
Pillars seem to be joyned together, are notwithstanding a little more distant one from another than in the Pycnostile; for the intercolumniation is two Diameters of the Pillars.
Pillars are at that distance, that they have for theIntercolumniation three Diameters: DD is the Areostyle, where the Pillars are far asunder.
Apart from serving the purpose of keeping out rain, the conjectured metopon would also be a counterpart to the northern intercolumniation when the facade was viewed from the west.
The low wall in the southernmost intercolumniation which for some reason was not completely closed was three courses high.
The northern intercolumniation was completely closed as in Roman times and in the central ones, the windows rested on three courses equal in height to four normal Greek courses.
As hitherto remarked, it was the architect's intention to close the southern as well as the northern intercolumniationof the west wall but he was prevented, apparently for some religious reason.
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