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The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, ... The pronaos frieze, at the east end of the temple, was 12 metres long. [106]
Roman temples commonly had an open pronaos, usually with only columns and no walls, and the pronaos could be as long as the cella. The word pronaos (πρόναος) is Greek for "before a temple". In Latin, a pronaos is also referred to as an anticum or prodomus. The pronaos of a Greek and Roman temple is typically topped with a pediment.
Architecturally, the opisthodomos (as a back room) balances the pronaos or porch of a temple, creating a plan with diaxial symmetry. The upper portion of its outer wall could be decorated with a frieze, as on the Hephaisteion and the Parthenon. Opisthodomoi are present in the layout of: Temples ER, A and O at Selinus; Temple of Aphaea at Aegina
In front of the naos, a small porch or pronaos was formed by the protruding naos walls, the antae. The pronaos was linked to the naos by a door. To support the superstructure, two columns were placed between the antae (distyle in antis). When equipped with an opisthodomos with a similar distyle in antis design, this is called a double anta temple
The temple was accessible from a stairway that was dismantled. [34] The pronaos is connected to the cella by two entrances: a massive, richly decorated central door and a smaller side door located to the left of the main entrance. [34] [59] The jambs of the main door are adorned with fasciae.
The Dendera zodiac as displayed at the Louvre Denderah zodiac with original colors (reconstructed). The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales).
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The parallel temple walls were 100 attic feet long and 32 attic feet between them. [25] The temple cella was enclosed by a western wall, created an "opisthodomos" at the west, and eastern door, which separates the cella and the near square "Pronaos". [11] Both "pronaos" and "opisthodomos" had two columns in the façade, which was an Asiatic ...