opisthodomos

American  

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

noun

plural

opisthodomoses

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

2. epinaos.

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Etymology

Origin of opisthodomos

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

Example Sentences

There was in large temples a porch of approach, the pronaos, and another behind, the opisthodomos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

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 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

The most celebrated example of such ornamentation was the box of Kypselos, in the opisthodomos of the temple of Hera at Olympia.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)