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    included: the peribolos wall and gate in the Sanctuary of Zeus (Altis), north of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece; the peribolos enclosing the Altar...
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    teichos or μικρὸν τεῖχος, mikron teichos, "small wall") by a terrace, the peribolos(περίβολος). Between the outer wall and the moat (σοῦδα, souda) there stretched...
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  • often physically marked by a peribolos fence or wall (e.g. Delphi) as a structural boundary. Originally, the peribolos was often just a set of marker...
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    Entrance and peribolos of the Temple of Poseidon, island of Kalaureia....
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    foundations of the Hellenistic temple remain. The temple stood within a peribolos (15 by 20 metres (49 by 66 ft)) in Doric style. The structures of the...
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    Reconstruction of the peribolos at Babylon, including the temple of Esagila, from The excavations at Babylon (1914)...
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    socle and mudbrick upper level) peribolos wall enclosing an area of c. 40 by 45 m dating to this phase. This peribolos was not aligned to the axis of the...
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    of the peribolos. Gates were installed to provide the officials with access to the pedestal for posting the notices. In Period V, the peribolos was extended...
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    317, when Demetrios of Phaleron banned any more elaborate mausolea. A peribolos tomb has a high wall facing onto a road, which retains the earth fill...
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    Pindar. The classical Pelopion was a separate sanctuary defined by a peribolos wall dating to the 6th century BC, long after the conventional start of...
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    names given to the compound – hatser (courtyard) in Hebrew, or the Greek peribolos and temenos – describe a space that surrounds another architectural element...
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    a fountain and a nymphaeum, were observed within the perimeter of the peribolos area. Both temples are centered-plan structures, with the north fanum...
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    building sat within a larger precinct or temenos, usually surrounded by a peribolos fence or wall; the whole is usually called a "sanctuary". The Acropolis...
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    sides, a peculiarity mentioned by Vitruvius. It was built adjacent to a peribolos identified as the burial mound and shrine to Phrontis, the helmsman of...
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    reconstructions have been proposed by B. Wescoat: either low walls forming a peribolos around the open-air monument, or a covered building with columns and pediment...
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    depicts the Spartan king Leonidas I.: 266  It was found southwest of peribolos of the Athena Chalkioikos on the Acropolis of Sparta.: 240  The sculpture...
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    probably to Apollo; the Fountain House, with the Agora in front of it; and Peribolos of the Altars, which contained dedications to various deities. During...
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    was 21 metres long and continues the archaic peribolos. The northern and western parts of the peribolos were covered over by a massive retaining wall...
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    archaeological site of Delphi is the Roman Agora, which was just outside the peribolos, or precinct walls, of the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. The Roman Agora...
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    standard in the Graeco-Roman world: a hollow square bordered all around by a peribolos ("border"), here a roofed portico, which in turn was bordered by rooms...
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    provides access to the innermost part the sanctuary. Included in the Peribolos, a sacred part of the royal pyramid reserved for priests of the king,...
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    sixteenth century BC. This grave circle was found east of this gate, where a peribolos wall also was built. After the expansion, Mycenae could be entered by...
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    of Augustus' reign in 14CE. This was surrounded by an outer court, or peribolos which included a market, and was built in stages as funds permitted, and...
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    building sat within a larger precinct or temenos, usually surrounded by a peribolos fence or wall; the whole is usually called a "sanctuary". The Acropolis...
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    Reconstruction of the peribolos at Babylon, including the temple of Esagila, where Marduk's statue was kept. From The Excavations at Babylon (1914)...
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    preceded, to the east, by a pronaos, the whole structure enclosed within a peribolos of about one hectare, bordered by Rue Nationale, Rue de la Scellerie,...
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    cult of Poseidon from other demes remains unclear. Secured by its own peribolos (court enclosed by a wall), propylaea (gateway), and two stoas (covered...
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    literature. It was perhaps both a retaining wall for the orchestra and peribolos for the sanctuary. Travlos, 1971, p.537 Dorpfeld conjectured a circular...
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  • to the 5th-century BC. The archeological remains include a trapezoidal peribolos, identified as a large stoa and stadium, which measures north side 66...
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    Temple of Olympian Zeus, despite the fact that it is only c. 20m from the peribolos wall (boundary wall) of that complex. Excavations in the intervening time...
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