ANTAE (a Lat. plural word, possibly from ante, before)

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ANTAE (a Lat. plural word, possibly from ante, before) , an architectural

term

TERM

given to slightly projecting

pilaster

PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a pillar)

strips which terminate the winged walls of the naos of a

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

temple. They owe their origin to the

vertical

VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

posts of timber employed in the primitive palaces or temples of

Greece

GREECE

, as at Tiryns and in the Heraeum at Olympia, to carry the roof timbers, as no reliance could be placed on the walls built with unburnt brick or in

rubble

RUBBLE

masonry with clay mortar. When between these winged walls there are columns to carry the

architrave

ARCHITRAVE (from Lat. arcus, an
arch
- ARCH
- ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )
, and trabs, trabem, a
beam
- BEAM
- BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)
)

, so as to form a

porch

PORCH (through the Fr. porehe, from Lat. porticus; the Ital. equivalent is portico, corresponding to the Gr. vapOi ; Ger. Vorhalle)

, the latter is said to be in-antis. (See TEMPLE.)

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