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A monopteros is a circular colonnade supporting a roof but without any walls. Unlike a tholos , it does not have a cella. In Greek and especially Roman antiquity the term could also be used for a tholos. In ancient times monopteroi served inter alia as a form of baldachin for an idol. An example of this is the Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, albeit the spaces between the columns were walled in, even in ancient times. The Temple of Rome and Augustus on the Athenian Acropolis is a monopteros from Roman times with open spaces between the columns. Cyriacus von Ancona, a 15th-century traveller, handed down his architrave inscription: Ad praefatae Palladis Templi vestibulum.