Hexastyle
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HEXASTYLE (Gr. 4, six, and rrfAos, column), an architectural term given to a temple in the portico of which there are six columns in front.
Hexastyle
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Alternate name: exastyle
Having six columns, as at one end or at both ends of a portico ...
On the reverse, is a hexastyle temple decorated with festoons, and figures on pediment and cornice; in the foreground stands the Emperor Caligula, veiled with patera in one hand, facing lleft, in the act of sacrificing on an altar, ...
Hexastyle - Of a portico with six frontal columns.
Hood-mould - A projecting moulding to throw off the rain, on the face of a wall, above an arch, doorway, or window.
Hypaethral - Without a roof, open to the sky.
hexastyle: term descriptive of a 6-columned portico.
hipped roof: a pitched roof in which the ends are also sloped.
hypaethral: (Greek) open to the sky.
Hexastyle buildings had six columns and were the standard facade in canonical Greek Doric architecture between the archaic period 600-550 B.C up to the Age of Pericles 450-430 B.C.
[edit] Greek hexastyle ...
Hexastyle temple: having a portico of six columns at either end.
Himation : a type of clothing in ancient Greece. It was usually worn over a chiton, but was made of heavier drape and played the role of a cloak.
distyle (two), tetrastyle (four), hexastyle (six), octostyle (eight). A prostyle portico has columns standing free. A portico in antis has columns on the same plane as the front of the building.
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, Temple, Architecture, Porch, Greek
  
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