NAOS

Naos

A naos was the sanctuary, the innermost chamber, of a Greek temple, in Latin referred to as cella. The word is nowadays used for temple sanctuaries of many ancient cultures. In Egyptian language hieroglyphs, two common versions exist, the oldest starting in the Old Kingdom era, then a common rectangular form from the New Kingdom and later.

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naos

Noun

  1. The inner part of a Greek temple; it contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico; it gave rise to the Roman cella


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