ANTA

Anta

An anta is an architectural term describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple - the slightly projecting piers which terminate the walls of the naos.

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anta

Noun

  1. A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.


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