Enciclopedia Cattolica

Prothesis

PROTESI

Volume X · p. 116 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

PROTESI. – Like “diaconicon,” this term is used to designate, in Byzantine architecture or architecture derived from it, one of the two minor apses flanking the central apse, which is always polygonal (v. PASTOPHORION).

Emilio Lavagnino

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“PROTESI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), p. 116. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/protesi.