Adyton
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of adytum.
"The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton. The adyton floor was covered with a pavement in later centuries, but in the third century B.C. a grove of bay trees, it appears, grew in the adyton (and this is probably true of the archaic Didymeion)."
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More examples"The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton. The adyton floor was covered with a pavement in later centuries, but in the third century B.C. a grove of bay trees, it appears, grew in the adyton (and this is probably true of the archaic Didymeion)."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄδυτον (áduton); compare adytum.
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