sekos

The temple of Derr is entirely hewn out of the sand-stone rock, with its pronaos, sekos or cella, and adyton.

Travels in Nubia 2004

A peculiarity of this extended series of sacred buildings is that the greater the distance from the entrance the narrower and lower the structure, so that the sekos is only a small dark chamber.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

On the farther side of the hypostyle there were still other large halls which led ultimately to the actual sanctuary, or sekos, in which the divinity was represented by a statue or some symbol; only the king, or his representative, the high priest, could enter the sekos.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The Egyptian temple is not an organic structure complete in itself; instead of unity there are the following distinct parts: dromos, enclosing wall, pylon, peristyle, hypostyle, and sekos.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Another by Thothmes II., at Medinet Abou, formed only a part (the sekos?) of a larger plan.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Thus, at El Kab, the temple of Amenophis III. has the sekos and hall but no forecourt.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Thothmes II. and III. with peripteral sekos; also Pavilion of

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

a sanctuary or _sekos_, a hypostyle (columnar) hall, known as the “hall of assembly,” and a forecourt preceded by a double pylon or gateway.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890