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Akroterion (plur. akroteria)

Andron

Anta (plur. antae)

Archaic

Architrave

Ashlar

Ashlar wall

Capital

Cella

Classical

Colonnade

Corinthian

Dentil

Doric

Double axe

Entablature

Epithet

Etymology

Exedra

Flute

Geison

Gutta

Hekatomnid

Hellenistic

Hypocaust

In antis

In situ

Ionic

Karia

Kline

Mausoleum or Maussolleion

Metope

Milesian

Mutule

Mylasa

Oikoi

Opisthodomos

Oracle

Panathenaic

Pediment

Polygonal wall

Pronaos

Propylon

Prytaneion

Regula

Roman

Sphinx

Stadion (plur. stadia)

Stoa

Stylobate

Taenia

Temenos

Terracotta

Triglyph

Xoanon

Sculpture placed on top of the roof, at the corners, or in the middle of the front

Banqueting hall

The end of a side wall, shaped as a pilaster

Dating to the period ca 700-480 BC

The beam supported by the columns that reached from one column to the next

Cut rectangular block

Wall built of cut rectangular blocks laid in horizontal courses

The sculpted top of a column

Inner room of a temple or an andron

Dating to the period ca 480-330 BC

A row of columns

Architectural order, esp. characterized by richly sculpted column capitals with acanthus leaves

Frieze block with a row of small, tooth-like rectangular projections

Architectural order characterized by a simple circular capital, a plain architrave with a narrow horizontal band at the top, a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and a geison (cornice) with mutules and guttae

Axe with two cutting edges

The courses carried by columns or a wall, and consisting of architrave, frieze and geison (cornice)

Characterizing word, added to a name

The origin of a word

A semicircular recess provided with a bench

Vertical channel in the surface of a column

Cornice

“Drop” (latin; plur. guttae); protruding little cylinder on the underside of the Doric mutule or regula

The Karian dynasty of Hekatomnos and his sons and daughters

Dating to the period ca 330 - 27 BC

The space with brick supports for the floor of a bathroom, where hot air for heating could circulate

Between the side walls, or antae

In its original place

Architectural order characterized by a volute capital, an architrave divided into two or three horizontal bands, dentil, and a plain geison (cornice)

South-western Anatolia, south of the river Maeander, and west of the river Indos (Dalaman cayi)

Bed

The word means ‘The tomb of Maussollos’; the original Mausoleum was his monumental tomb at Halikarnassos (Bodrum), one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, where he was buried in 352 BC

Square or almost square panel between two triglyphs in the Doric triglyph-and-metope frieze

From Miletos

Rectangular disc on the underside of the Doric cornice, decorated with three rows of six protruding little cylinders, or guttae

The ancient name of Milas

The rooms; name of two-room building at Labraunda

The enclosed porch at the rear of a temple

Divine announcement or prophecy; also a sanctuary where such prophecies were announced by the priests

Relating to the Panathenaia festival of Athens

Gable; the triangular space under the gabled roof of a building

Masonry with irregularly shaped blocks of more than four corners

The open porch between the columns and the cella of a temple or an andron

Architecturally developed gate or entrance

Council house

Listel decorated with six guttae, placed below the narrow horizontal band, or taenia, at the top of the Doric architrave

Dating to the period of the Roman Empire ca. 27 BC – ca. AD 400

Mythical animal with a human head and a lion’s body

Race course, or the length of a racecourse = 600 feet = ca. 177-196 meters

Portico; a covered walk with a roof supported on columns along the front

Base supporting a row of columns

The projecting horizontal band at the top of the Doric architrave; regulae with guttae are placed below the taenia

Sacred precinct enclosed by a wall

Fired clay

Ornament in the Doric frieze, which consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes; each triglyph is emphasized by three vertical fillets, separated by two channels

Wooden, or primitive-looking cult statue

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