Lexicographical Neighbors of Epinaos
Literary usage of Epinaos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The open vestibule in the front of the naos or celia of a temple; usually opposed
to epinaos, but if the treasury or rear part of the temple is under ..."
2. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1906)
"naos and epinaos ... in antis: although there is doubt whether there was a door
from the epinaos into the naos. The material was a defective limestone, ..."
3. The Architecture of Greece & Rome: A Sketch of Its Historic Development by William James Anderson, Richard Phené Spiers (1903)
"... two in the epinaos. A stylobate of four steps is carried round the whole
structure, and a flight of nine steps to reach the platform at the east and ..."
4. Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America, William Cranston Lawton, Joseph Silas Diller, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1898)
"The separate dimensions of pronaos, naos, epinaos, and walls amount, when added
together, to but 22.077 m-, while the length obtained by subtracting the ..."
5. European Architecture: A Historical Study by Russell Sturgis (1896)
"epinaos. ... is used for an enclosed chamber, epinaos would be the correct term
for the porch beyond it. ..."
6. Hellenistic Architecture in Syria by Steuben Butler Murray (1917)
"... epinaos, a peculiarity found also in the Temple of Helios (? ... widened for
the width of pronaos and epinaos.77 Mr. Butler informs me that the astragal ..."
7. Papers of the Archæological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America (1882)
"... temples in which the epinaos is known to have been omitted are those extremely
ancient monuments at Selinus, designated as the temples C, D, and J>, ..."
8. A Short History of Architecture, Europe by Russell Sturgis (1908)
"epinaos. ... is used for an enclosed chamber, epinaos would be the correct term
for the porch beyond it. ..."
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