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Dodecastyle

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Gr. SWSErca, twelve, and vriAos, column), the architectural term given to a temple where the portico has twelve columns in front, as in the portico added to the temple of Demeter at Eleusis, designed by Philo, the architect of the arsenal at the Peiraeus.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Dodecastyle'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​d/dodecastyle.html. 1910.
 
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