Tetrapylon, the Glossary
A tetrapylon (plural tetrapyla; lit; lit, also used in English) is a rectangular form of monument with arched passages in two directions, at right angles, generally built on a crossroads.[1]
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55 relations: Ancient Roman architecture, Anjar, Lebanon, Aphrodisias, Arc de Triomphe, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Arch of Caracalla (Thebeste), Arch of Galerius and Rotunda, Arch of Janus, Arch of Malborghetto, Arch of Marcus Aurelius (Tripoli), Arch of Septimius Severus (Leptis Magna), Barrel vault, Beqaa Valley, Byzantine Empire, Carnuntum, Cáparra, Chahartaq (architecture), Classical architecture, Colonnade, Constantinople, Crossroads (folklore), Edwin Lutyens, Eiffel Tower, Ephesus, Fire temple, Floor plan, Gateway of India, Greece, Heidentor, India Gate, Islamic State, Jerash, Jordan, Kent, Libya, Milion, Mumbai, New Delhi, Oea, Palmyra, Pedestal, Pediment, Pompeii, Richborough Castle, Rome, Sasanian architecture, Syria, Thessaloniki, Theveste, Tripoli, Libya, ... Expand index (5 more) »
- Ancient Roman architectural elements
- Ancient Roman buildings and structures
Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Anjar, Lebanon
Anjar (meaning "unresolved or running river"; عنجر / ALA-LC: ‘Anjar; also known as Hawsh Mousa (حوش موسى / Ḥawsh Mūsá), is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is 2,400, consisting almost entirely of Armenians. The total area is about twenty square kilometers (7.7 square miles).
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Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias (Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Asia Minor, today's Anatolia in Turkey.
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Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (Triumphal Arch of the Carousel) is a triumphal arch in Paris, located in the Place du Carrousel.
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Arch of Caracalla (Thebeste)
The Arch of Caracalla is a tetrapylon Roman triumphal arch in Thebeste, located in present-day Tébessa, Tébessa Province, Algeria.
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Arch of Galerius and Rotunda
The Arch of Galerius (Αψίδα τουΓαλερίου) or Kamara (Καμάρα) and the Rotunda (Ροτόντα) are neighbouring early 4th-century AD monuments in the city of Thessaloniki, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece.
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Arch of Janus
The Arch of Janus is the only quadrifrons triumphal arch preserved in Rome.
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Arch of Malborghetto
The Arch of Malborghetto is an Ancient Roman quadrifrons arch (that is, an arch with four pylons) located nineteen kilometres north of Rome on the via Flaminia.
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Arch of Marcus Aurelius (Tripoli)
The Arch of Marcus Aurelius (Qaus Mārkūs Aurīliyūs) is a Roman triumphal arch in the city of Oea, modern Tripoli, Libya, where it is found near the northeastern entrance to the Medina.
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Arch of Septimius Severus (Leptis Magna)
The Arch of Septimius Severus is a triumphal arch in the ruined Roman city of Leptis Magna, in present-day Libya (and Roman Libya).
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Barrel vault
A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance.
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Beqaa Valley
The Beqaa Valley (وادي البقاع,, Lebanese; also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa) is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon and its most important farming region.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Carnuntum
Carnuntum (according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress (castra legionis) and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD.
Cáparra
The Roman city of Cáparra is located in the north of Extremadura (Spain) in the valley of the River Alagón.
Chahartaq (architecture)
Chartaq (چارطاق), chahartaq (چهارطاق), chartaqi (چارطاقی), or chahartaqi (چهارطاقی), literally meaning "having four arches", is an architectural unit consisted of four barrel vaults and a dome.
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Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
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Colonnade
In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.
Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
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Crossroads (folklore)
In folklore, crossroads may represent a location "between the worlds" and, as such, a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted and paranormal events can take place.
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Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
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Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
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Ephesus
Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Fire temple
A fire temple, (darb-e Mehr, lit. ‘Door of Kindness’)(agiyārī) is the place of worship for the followers of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of Persia.
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Floor plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
Gateway of India
The Gateway of India is an arch-monument completed in 1924 on the waterfront of Mumbai (Bombay), India.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Heidentor
The Heidentor, also known as Heathens' Gate or Pagans' Gate, is the partially reconstructed ruin of a triumphal arch of the Roman Empire, located in what was the fort-city of Carnuntum, in present-day Austria.
India Gate
The India Gate (formerly known as All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located near the Kartavya path on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, formerly called Rajpath in New Delhi.
Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
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Jerash
Jerash (جرش Ǧaraš; Gérasa) is a city in northern Jordan.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Milion
The Milion (Μίλιον or Μίλλιον, Mílion; Milyon taşı) was a marker from which all distances across the Roman Empire were measured.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
New Delhi
New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).
Oea
Oea (Ἐώα) was an ancient city in present-day Tripoli, Libya.
Palmyra
Palmyra (Palmyrene:, romanized: Tadmor; Tadmur) is an ancient city in the eastern part of the Levant, now in the center of modern Syria.
Pedestal
A pedestal or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars.
Pediment
Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape. Tetrapylon and Pediment are ancient Roman architectural elements.
Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
Richborough Castle
Richborough Castle is a Roman Saxon Shore fort better known as Richborough Roman Fort.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
Sasanian architecture
Sasanian architecture refers to the Persian architectural style that reached a peak in its development during the Sasanian era.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.
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Theveste
Theveste was a Roman colony situated in what is now Tébessa, Algeria.
Tripoli, Libya
Tripoli (translation) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023.
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Triumphal arch
A triumphal arch is a free-standing monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road, and usually standing alone, unconnected to other buildings.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Via Flaminia
The Via Flaminia was an ancient Roman road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to Ariminum (Rimini) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and due to the ruggedness of the mountains was the major option the Romans had for travel between Etruria, Latium, Campania, and the Po Valley.
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War memorial
A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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See also
Ancient Roman architectural elements
- Acroterion
- Aedicula
- Agger (ancient Rome)
- Architrave
- Cavaedium
- Classical order
- Corinthian order
- Diocletian window
- Dome
- Drainage tunnel
- Exedra
- Fauces (architecture)
- Fumarium
- History of Roman and Byzantine domes
- Imbrex and tegula
- Impluvium
- Labrum (architecture)
- List of ancient Greek and Roman monoliths
- List of ancient Greek and Roman roofs
- List of ancient spiral stairs
- Metope
- Monk and Nun
- Opus reticulatum
- Palisade
- Pediment
- Pilae
- Pilae stacks
- Portico
- Post and lintel
- Pseudoperipteros
- Pteron
- Puteal
- Roman brick
- Scaenae frons
- Scamilli impares
- Semi-dome
- Sphaeristerium
- Spolia
- Stillicidium
- Superposed order
- Suspensura
- Tablinum
- Taenia (architecture)
- Tetrapylon
- Velarium
- Vitruvian opening
- Volute
- Vomitorium
Ancient Roman buildings and structures
- Column of Jerash
- Insula (building)
- Kalybe (temple)
- Odeon (building)
- Stadiasmus Patarensis
- Tetrapylon
- Tholos (architecture)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapylon
Also known as Octopylon, Tetrakionion.
, Triumphal arch, Turkey, Via Flaminia, War memorial, Zoroastrianism.