* Tall, slender, graceful octagonal steeple(s) on the naos (and
pronaos), in case of churches with their different longitudinal sections roofed over separately.
The deformation clearly shows the opening mechanism due to the effect of the
pronao settlement, as well as to the thrust of the internal vault that supports the Mount Tabor installation.
Once again, the spaces are carefully measured, and valuable observations on the convergence of the space from the
pronaos toward the sanctuary are offered.
Concluding the long
pronaos with a short exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount as "an abstract of Christian philosophy [and] practice of virtue," (64) Hammond fills out the details of the covenanted life, defining the new law of love through the beatitudes and tying up the case for faithful obedience.
Twelve sculpted metopes of Parian marble, approximately 1.6 m square and carved with the labors of Herakles, graced the entablature of the
pronaos and opisthodomos, (7) six per side (Figs.
Among his many works on early New England are Harrison Gray Otis: Urbane Federalist (1969; first published 1913), Builders of the Bay Colony (1930; revised 1958), and The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England (1956, first published The Puritan
Pronaos, 1936).
The
pronaos of the temple included the four central columns of the portico--slightly taller--and these were replicated by four others on a front wall of the platform.
The form of the tomb is a temple in miniature: it consists of a
pronaos (forecourt) and naos (inner sanctuary), beneath which Petosiris and his family were buried.
One stele on which accounts of the
Pronaos of Athena's treasury are inscribed is entirely dressed on both sides, but not inscribed all the way down on the obverse (IG [I.sup.3] 296-299, 305-308).
