Definition of Epinaos

1. a rear vestibule [n -NAOI]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epinaos

epimorphism
epimorphisms
epimorphosis
epimutation
epimutations
epimyoepithelial islands
epimysia
epimysiotomy
epimysium
epimyth
epimythia
epimythium
epimythiums
epimyths
epinaoi
epinaos (current term)
epinastic
epinasties
epinastine
epinasty
epinemin
epinephrin
epinephrine
epinephrine cyclase
epinephrine reversal
epinephrines
epinephrins
epinephros
epineural
epineuria

Literary usage of Epinaos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The open vestibule in the front of the naos or celia of a temple; usually opposed to epinaos, but if the treasury or rear part of the temple is under ..."

2. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1906)
"naos and epinaos ... in antis: although there is doubt whether there was a door from the epinaos into the naos. The material was a defective limestone, ..."

3. The Architecture of Greece & Rome: A Sketch of Its Historic Development by William James Anderson, Richard Phené Spiers (1903)
"... two in the epinaos. A stylobate of four steps is carried round the whole structure, and a flight of nine steps to reach the platform at the east and ..."

4. Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America, William Cranston Lawton, Joseph Silas Diller, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1898)
"The separate dimensions of pronaos, naos, epinaos, and walls amount, when added together, to but 22.077 m-, while the length obtained by subtracting the ..."

5. European Architecture: A Historical Study by Russell Sturgis (1896)
"epinaos. ... is used for an enclosed chamber, epinaos would be the correct term for the porch beyond it. ..."

6. Hellenistic Architecture in Syria by Steuben Butler Murray (1917)
"... epinaos, a peculiarity found also in the Temple of Helios (? ... widened for the width of pronaos and epinaos.77 Mr. Butler informs me that the astragal ..."

7. Papers of the Archæological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America (1882)
"... temples in which the epinaos is known to have been omitted are those extremely ancient monuments at Selinus, designated as the temples C, D, and J>, ..."

8. A Short History of Architecture, Europe by Russell Sturgis (1908)
"epinaos. ... is used for an enclosed chamber, epinaos would be the correct term for the porch beyond it. ..."

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