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The temple proper, measuring 2815 m., consists of a square cella and a hexastyle pronaos formed of Corinthian columns on a high podium.
The Corinthian pronaos surmounted by a drum in Juvarra's design for the facade was only added in the 19th century.
A low flight of steps leads into the pronaos, defined by a pair of columns, pillars, and curtain walls.
The elevation of the temple was restituted up to the roof level for a height of 4m in the sanctuary and of ca. 5.60m in the pronaos.
The pronaos is flanked of eight pillars osiriaques of ten meters to the features of Ramesses.
The front of the pronaos and the opisthodomos, with two in antis columns, restate the Doric order.
The façade runs in line with the road that climbed up from the Clivus Capitolinus, and features a pronaos with four pillars in the central part preceeded by a flight of steps.
The chapels all refer to a single construction type with a hall, a round or quadrilateral layout, preceded by a pronaos from which one can see the sacred scene, portrayed with terracotta polychrome statues.
That covenant can now be seen as setting the pitch for the catechism's pronaos and as offering the master key to the body of Hammond's practical divinity.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is when we arrive at the pronaos that we fail to recognize the disposition to which we have grown accustomed.
We can easily understand how Strabo saw in it the equivalent to the pronaos of the Greek temples.
The real difficulty begins when we look round us for the pronaos, and examine the hypostyle halls.
Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos.
They led their visitors through the pronaos and naos to the secos, to the holy of holies.
The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.
There was in large temples a porch of approach, the pronaos, and another behind, the opisthodomos.
The pronaos and opisthodomos were each bounded by two Doric columns between antae, surmounted by metopes.
Behind the pronaos could be recognized the place where the cella used to be.
It is in the Doric style, of white marble, and eleven columns of the peristyle and one of the pronaos are now standing.
The gloom deepens in the hypostyle which follows the pronaos.
On each side of the pronaos project what are called the wings.
The dromos led up to the pronaos, which was reached by a few steps.
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