pronaos

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These return from the columns which stand third on the inner side to the antae which project from the pronaos, and which touch the edges of the hemicycle at right and left 9.

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  1. noun The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple, leading to the cella.

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  • These return from the columns which stand third on the inner side to the antae which project from the pronaos, and which touch the edges of the hemicycle at right and left 9. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Both were temples of Athena and more especially of Athena as guardian of the city, Athena Polias; a pronaos or proneion formed part of each; one temple was called and the main cella of the other was called s 26], and this name was extended to the whole building. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • Were the vestibule (pronaos) repeated at the other end of the building, it would be called an opisthodomos, and the whole building would be a double templum in antis. —  A History of Greek Art
  • First, the pronaos, where we still see clearly, between pillars carved with hieroglyphs. —  Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
  • The gloom deepens in the hypostyle which follows the pronaos. —  Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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  1. Greek pronāos, before a temple, pronaos : pro-, before; see pro-2 + Greek dialectal nāos, temple.

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  1. from Greek πρόναος, also neuter πρόναον, a porch before a temple, properly adjective, πρόναος, πρόναιος, Attic πρόνεως, before a temple, from πρό, before, + ναός, a temple, a cella: see naos.
 

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