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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

naos , inner portion of a Greek temple, enclosed within walls and generally surrounded by colonnaded porticoes. In it stood the statue of the deity to whom the temple was consecrated. The naos was provided with a columned porch, typically only in front (pronaos) but often also at the back (opisthodomos). It was the prototype for the cella of the Roman temple.

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naos

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

naos.
1. Inner cell or sanctuary of a Greek temple, equivalent to the Roman cella, containing the statue of the deity.

2. Sanctuary of a centrally planned Byzantine church.

3. Small shrine, often portable, e.g. the battered-sided Egyptian type, carried by a Naöphorus figure.

Bibliography

J. Curl (2005);
Dinsmoor (1950)

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Naos

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Naos The star Zeta Puppis. It is an O5 supergiant, one of the hottest stars known (surface temperature 40 000 K), of magnitude 2.2. Its distance is about 1400 l.y.

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