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What is a naos?

What is a naos? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (architecture) The inner part of a Greek temple; it contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico; it gave rise to the Roman cella
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Small objects bearing Harbor masks, for example, are divided into loop sistra, naos sistra, Hathor masks, and Harbor mask columns.
They led their visitors through the pronaos and naos to the secos, to the holy of holies.
Luke has Zechariah ministering not merely at the hieron, the temple complex, but in the naos, the inner sanctuary of the temple restricted to the priests.
When fit together, as is shown here, they form a naos — a stone shrine or ark that once held the temple god.
Its position shows it to be meant for a vestibule to the naos properly speaking.
Several steps led to the anteroom, supported by Ionic columns, which adjoined the naos.

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