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The peristasis (Ancient Greek: περίστασις) was a four-sided porch or hallway of columns surrounding the cella (naos) in an ancient Greek peripteral temple. This allowed priests to pass round the cella (along a pteron) in cultic processions. If such a hall of columns surrounds a patio or garden, it is called a peristyle rather than a ...
Peristasi (Greek: Περίσταση) is a village and a community of the Katerini municipality, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece. [2] Before the 2011 local government reform, it was part of the municipality of Paralia, of which it was a municipal district. [2] The 2021 census recorded 2,367 inhabitants in the village. [1]
The peristasis was surrounded by 8 × 15 columns or 7 × 14 intercolumniations, i.e. a 1:2 proportion. The naos consisted of a pronaos of four column depths, a four-column naos, and a two-column opisthodomos. Above the architrave of the peristasis, there was a figural frieze of 137 m length, depicting the amazonomachy.
The peristyle in a Greek temple is a peristasis (περίστασις, perístasis). [7] In the Christian ecclesiastical architecture that developed from the Roman basilica , a courtyard peristyle and its garden came to be known as a cloister .
A peripteros surrounded by a peristasis. In Classical architecture, a peripteros (Ancient Greek: περίπτερος; see peripterous) is a type of ancient Greek or Roman temple surrounded by a portico with columns. It is surrounded by a colonnade on all four sides of the cella (naos), creating a four-sided arcade, or peristyle . [1]
Peristasis (Ancient Greek: περίστασις "standing around") may refer to: Peristasis (architecture) Peristasis, inactive phases of vasoconstriction in inflammation; Peristasi, Pieria; The Greek name of Şarköy
The Temple of Concordia (Italian: Tempio della Concordia, Greek: Ναός της Ομόνοιας) is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples) in Agrigento (Greek: Ακράγας, Akragas) on the south coast of Sicily, Italy.
In Classical architecture, a pteron (Ancient Greek: πτερον, 'wing') is an external colonnade around a building, especially an Ancient Greek temple. [1] The pteroma or peristasis is the passage between the columns and the wall in a temple, [2] the peristyle that in an inward-facing courtyard or garden. [3]