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Semidome - A roof covering a semicircular space; half a dome.
Serliana - An archway or window with three openings, the central one arched and wider than the others; so called because it was first illustrated in Serlio's Architettura.
[Late Latin, semidome, from Latin, mussel shell; see conch.]
conchal (-kl) adj.
concha [ˈkɒŋkə] ...
[4] That is, it stretched the length of the eastern semidome, including the apse but excluding the exedrae (half-dome recesses in a wall). Twelve silver-covered marble columns of approximately 4.
 See also: Dome, Architecture, Palace, Capital, Fixed
  
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