Pteron

Pteron (Gr. πτερον – pteron — wing) is an architectural term meaning the 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]

Notes

Lawrence, A. W., Greek Architecture, p. xxxi, 1957, Penguin, Pelican history of art; FHP, 254
FHP, 254
FHP, 240

References

"FHP": John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, 3rd edn, 1980, Penguin, ISBN 0140510133

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