This complex, constructed in the classical method of opus caementitium can clearly be identified as a peripteral temple on a podium. |
The last time I was at Paris I remember being struck by seeing for the first time a peripteral building made really useful. |
It was in the Doric style, peripteral and hypethral, and raised upon three steps. |
The peripteral columns of the Doric style worthily express the peculiar character of the Dorians by their simple dignity. |
But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below. |
The peripteral temple to the right, is the Typhonium, and immediately behind the great temple is a small one consecrated to Isis. |