opisthodomos

[ op-is-thod-uh-muhs, -mos ]

noun

, plural op·is·thod·o·mos·es.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of opisthodomos¹

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

Example Sentences

But, if the western room of the Periclean temple was the opisthodomos, where was the proper?

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It is natural to regard this (with Lolling) as Page 11 the opisthodomos where the treasure was kept.

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

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

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

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