propylon

Definitions

Examples

• The really ancient part of the structure begins with the rows of sphinxes which border the road behind the propylon.

• Champollion and some architects suppose that they stood before a propylon.

• The second type of propylon differs from the first in having a very much smaller doorway in comparison with its total mass.

• Judging from the scenes and inscriptions which accompany it, Champollion thought this represented a propylon at the Ramesseum.

• The train had halted before a vast propylon of rose-coloured granite.