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In architecture, a cella (also known as a cell) is the part enclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.
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In architecture the term monopteral is applied to temples which are round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof.
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In architecture a monopteron is a circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
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In architecture an opisthodome is a back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.
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In architecture a peristyle is a range of columns with their entablature, etc. Specifically the term describes a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. The term is used in the former sense as a name given to the larger inner court of a Roman dwelling.
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In architecture the term pseudo-dipteral refers to something falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column, for example.
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