Byzantine Art

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…tryside as well; many other types are known. One of the most influential in later times was the type used for the Pantheon (AD118-28) in Rome, consisting of a standard gable-roofed columnar porch with a domed cylindrical drum behind it replacing the traditional rectangular main room, or cella. Simpler temples based on Greek prototypes, with round cellas and an encircling colonnade, such as that built about 75BC at Tivoli, near Rome, were also popular.