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colour applied onto the dry surface of a wallpainting rather than into wet plaster

(a term taken from Homer) a tall footless cup with two elongated handles

square pilasters or projections of side-walls which frame an entrance or portico Archaic period—the 7th and 6th centuries bc

the terracotta or marble gutter of a building

the central doors in the iconostasis of a church closing the altar from view

a block of buildings constituting a unified subdivision of a town-plan

a white marble veined with grey quarried on the island of Proconnesus in the Sea of Marmara

a building similar to a small theatre of semicircular form and with tiered seats for the performance of music and recitals of poetry paeana joyful sung poem or ode expressing thanksgiving praise [...]

a discrete chapel attached and parallel to a larger main church

the entirety of a complex of religious buildings in Ottoman architecture