1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pteron

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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 22 Pteron

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PTERON (Gr. πτερόν, a wing), an architectural term used by Pliny for the peristyle of the tomb of Mausolus, which was raised on a lofty podium, and so differed from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate, as in Greek temples, or on a low podium, as in Roman temples.