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Übersetzung für 'adyton' von Englisch nach Deutsch

adyton

Adyton {n}archi.hist.relig.

• Adyton {n} = adyton
• Adyton {n} = adytum

• Although the temple is poorly preserved, it can be reconstructed to have had four columns in the cella and an "adyton" at the rear of the cella.
• Ritual purification would be followed by offerings or sacrifices to the god (according to means), and the supplicant would then spend the night in the holiest part of the sanctuary– the abaton (or adyton).
• Building of the adyton belongs to the third part of construction of the Dome, the years 1440–62.
• It is a temple characterised by multiple staircases creating a system of successive levels: ten steps lead to the entrance on the eastern side, after the pronaos in antis another six steps lead into the naos and finally another six steps lead into the adyton at the rear of the naos.
• A cella may also contain an adyton, an inner area restricted to access by the priests—in religions that had a consecrated priesthood—or by the temple guard.

• To the back of the temple lie the remains of the adyton where images of the deity once stood.
• The door usually leading to a cella was replaced by a blank wall with a large upper opening through which one could glimpse the upper part of the naiskos in the inner court (in inscriptions the inner court is referred to as "sekos" or "adyton").
• The plan is square and consists of a pronaos (or vestibule), a naos (or chamber), and a tripartite adyton which contains the cella, the most sacred part of the temple.
• The cella did not include either a porch or an adyton and the lack of a frieze may be indicative of Ionian influence.
• There were six niches against the walls that were reserved for the placement of statues and in the center of them was the main space, the "adyton", used to hold the main statue of the pagan cult.

• The adyton ([...] , 'innermost sanctuary, shrine', [...]) or [...] (Latin) was a restricted area within the cella of a Greek or Roman temple.