Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos. |
Both the portico and the cella no doubt had a coffered ceiling. |
With an entrance of six elegant and ornate Ionic columns and its cella, which housed the xoanon of Athena, it appears to be united to the cella of the west chamber. |
A temple planned upon the dipteral arrangement, in which the inner rank of columns surrounding the cella is wanting. |
The temple was rebuilt with the same dimensions of the cella, but it probably became an amphiprostyle temple, without outer rows of columns. |
The cella or naos was built to enshrine the chryselephantine statue of Athena by Pheidias. |