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Decastyle - ten columns
Examples:
Illustration above: Maison Carrée Temple at Nimes, France ...
The decastyle has ten columns; as in the temple of Apollo Didymaeus at Miletus, and the portico of University College London.
[edit] See also
Classical architecture
List of classical architecture terms
Colonnade
Hypostyle
Loggia
Peristyle
Stoa ...
course, belt course, or table, cornice, corona, cove or coving, crenel or crenelle, cresting, crocket or crochet, crossing, crown, cullis, cupola, curb roof, curtail step, curtain wall, cushion, cusp, cuspidation, cyma, cymatium, dado, decastyle, ...
Portico
- a porch in the form of a classical colonnade, usually described in terms of the number of columns, ie Hexastyle (6), Octastyle (8) Decastyle (10) (all from Greek ie deka, ten, stulos a column) ...
 See also: Portico, Hexastyle, Greek, Architecture, Porch
  
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