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| | GREEK ARCHITECTURE: TEMPLE OF APOLLO EPIKOURIOS (THE HELPER) AT BASSAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The plan is hexastyle peripteral, with fifteen columns on the flanks, all built up in drums. |
 | | Most of the building is of a hard, fine-grained grey limestone, but marble was used for the sculptures and the most decorative parts, including the ceilings over the pronaos, the opisthodomos and the short sides of the ambulatory, which otherwise were of stone. |
 | | It faces north, instead of east, and the statue of Apollo was placed in an adyton, or inner sanctuary, partially screened off from the naos proper and lighted from a large opening in the eastern, side wall. |
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