pronaos
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The porch or vestibule of a temple.
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After the death of Augustus in 14, a copy of the text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti (the Monumentum Ancyranum ) was inscribed on the interior of the temple's pronaos main in Latin and a Greek translation on an exterior wall of the cella main.
A rectangular service room is attached to the north side of the pronaos.
Examples: *Distyle in antis describes a small temple with two columns at the front, which are set between the projecting walls of the pronaos or porch, like the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnus.
It is likely that many early houses and temples were constructed with an open porch or "pronaos" above which rose a low pitched gable or pediment.
Inside, there is a portico containing a second row of columns, a pronaos, a naos, and an adyton in single long, narrow structure (an archaic characteristic).
In the wall between the pronaos and the naos in Temple A two spiral staircases led to the gallery (or floor) above.