Opisthodomos
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Opisthodomos
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An opisthodomos can refer to either the rear room of an ancient Greek temple or to the inner shrine, also called the adyton. The confusion arises from the lack of agreement in ancient inscriptions. In modern scholarship, it usually refers to the rear porch of a temple. On the Athenian Acropolis especially, the opisthodomos came to be a treasury, where the revenues and precious dedications of the temple were kept. Its use in antiquity was not standardised. In part because of the ritual secrecy of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthodomos
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2024-04-04T21:41:42Z
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