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What is a pronaos?

What is a pronaos? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple
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The Corinthian pronaos surmounted by a drum in Juvarra's design for the facade was only added in the 19th century.
The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.
We can easily understand how Strabo saw in it the equivalent to the pronaos of the Greek temples.
The real difficulty begins when we look round us for the pronaos, and examine the hypostyle halls.
The pronaos is flanked of eight pillars osiriaques of ten meters to the features of Ramesses.
They led their visitors through the pronaos and naos to the secos, to the holy of holies.

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