opisthodomos

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[op-is-thod-uh-muhs, -mos] / ˌɒp ɪsˈθɒd ə məs, -ˌmɒs /

noun

opisthodomoses plural

1. Also called posticum.  a small room in the cella of a classical temple, as for a treasury.

2. epinaos.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• opisthodomoses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of opisthodomos

1690–1700; < Greek opisthódomos, equivalent to opistho- opistho- + dómos house

Example Sentences

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opisthodomos

Fragment of the capital of one of the Doric columns of the pronaos or opisthodomos, including the lower part of the echinus, and the upper part of the flutings.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

Lolling maintains that the eastern cella of the Parthenon was the Parthenon proper, that the western room of the Parthenon was the opisthodomos, and that the νεως ό Έκατόμπεδος was the pre-Persian temple.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

The twelve sculptured metopes of the temple do not belong to the exterior frieze, whose metopes were plain, but to a second frieze, placed above the columns and antae of pronaos and opisthodomos.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

There is, then, no reason in the nature of things why the whole western part of the Parthenon should not be called opisthodomos.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

The pronaos and opisthodomos were each bounded by two Doric columns between antae, surmounted by metopes.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.