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hexastyle

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hexastyle, exastyle
hexastyle
Having six columns, as at one end or at each end of a portico.
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On the reverse, is a hexastyle temple decorated with festoons, and figures on pediment and cornice; in the foreground stands the Emperor Caligula, veiled with patera in one hand, facing lleft, in the act of sacrificing on an altar, to which the slaughterman is dragging a bull.
The Portraiture of Gaius Caligula the Seated Figure? by Joe Geranio by Joe Geranio / History community
Still with all that ad revenue you might have expected Great Buildings to have at least mentioned that Maison Carree is a hexastyle Corinthian temple.
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