#pseudoperipteros

[unsavory]

don’t you love when you walk somewhere and the snow is literally untouched?

[mostly-history]

Temple of the Muses (Baalbek, Lebanon).

Separated from the main temple complex by a colonnaded street is the Court of Venus and the Muses.  The Temple of the Muses is the older of the two shrines, built during the 1st century AD.  It has a podium base, and is surrounded by engaged columns – columns that are embedded in the wall and project partially out from it.  This makes the temple a pseudoperipteros, which is a building with engaged columns in the outer walls, but not the front wall.