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An '''anta''' (pl. antæ) ([[Latin]], possibly from ''ante'', 'before' or 'in front of') is an [[architecture|architectural]] term describing the [[Pole (object)|posts]] or [[column|pillar]]s on either side of a [[doorway]] or [[entrance]] of a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[temple]] - the slightly projecting piers which terminate the walls of the [[cella|naos]].<ref>{{cite book | first=Leland M. | last=Roth | year=1993 | title=Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning | edition=First | publisher=Westview Press | location=Boulder, CO | id=ISBN 0-06-430158-3 | pages=}}</ref>
In contrast to pillars, they are directly connected with the walls of a temple. They owe their origin to the vertical posts of timber employed in the early, more primitive palaces or temples of Greece, as at [[Tiryns]] and in the [[Temple of Hera (Olympia)|Temple of Hera at Olympia]]. They were used as load-bearing structures to carry the roof timbers, as no reliance could be placed on walls built with unburnt brick or in rubble masonry with clay mortar. Later, they became more decorative as the materials used for wall construction became sufficient to support the structure.
When there are columns between antae, as in a porch facade, rather than a solid wall, the columns are said to be ''in antis''. (See [[temple]].)
==Further reading==
Name of person: Anta - Senegalese name. Also the nickname name of plus sized supermodel Ndeye Anta Niang.
Anta outrageously rocked the plus sized industry specially in 2003.
www.supermodelanta.com
===[http://www.vitruvius.be/boek4h4.htm Vitruvius, Book 4, Chapter 4 (translated)]
Anta is also known as Jose Luis Anta Andres, also known as Anta / the last from Philippines, now currently living in Osuna, Spain.
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