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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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A low flight of steps leads into the pronaos, defined by a pair of columns, pillars, and curtain walls.
The pronaos is flanked of eight pillars osiriaques of ten meters to the features of Ramesses.
The temple proper, measuring 2815 m., consists of a square cella and a hexastyle pronaos formed of Corinthian columns on a high podium.
The elevation of the temple was restituted up to the roof level for a height of 4m in the sanctuary and of ca. 5.60m in the pronaos.
Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos.
It is when we arrive at the pronaos that we fail to recognize the disposition to which we have grown accustomed.

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