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Definition of Temenos
1. a sacred precinct [n TEMENE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temenos
Literary usage of Temenos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities by Arthur Hamilton Smith, British Museum Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1900)
"82 ; and G. Hirschfeld, in Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mas., Part IV., Section 1.
SCULPTURES FROM THE temenos OP DEMETER. For an account of the temenos, ..."
2. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ by Charles Thomas Newton, Richard Popplewell Pullan (1863)
"387, that in the temenos of Demeter at Cnidus were found a number of marble
breasts placed on plinths and surmounted by a handle, and so graduated in scale ..."
3. Travels & Discoveries in the Levant by Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi (1865)
"... of about 77 feet in the centre of the temenos, and 40 feet at the south-western
angle. Nothing was found in this excavation except a large stone spout, ..."
4. The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations; with by Arthur Evans (1901)
"We may, perhaps, suppose that the whole represents a shrine on a peak surrounded
by a temenos Furtwangler, Ant. Gemmen. ii. p. 24, and o} H. von Fritze, ..."
5. Recent Discoveries in the Forum, 1898-1904 by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (1904)
"... Fiore on the high bank next the Temple of Antoninus Faustina were being rapidly
demolished. Between the temenos, or sacred enclosure belonging to Vesta, ..."
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