temenos

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temenos (plural temenoi or temene)

(chiefly Ancient Greece) A piece of ground surrounding or adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.

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A great temenos was laid out enclosing a much larger area and the new temple itself was about three times the earlier size.sfn Temple of Seti I Egypt - Temple of Seti I, Abydus. Source: Internet

An outer temenos (enclosure) wall surrounded the grounds. Source: Internet

He notes the common belief that any person entering the temenos would die within a year, along with the legend that all creatures, human and animal alike, cast no shadow while inside the sacred area. Source: Internet

It consists of a main building and two round towers within an enormous temenos or sacred area. Source: Internet

Later, with the erection of the temple and of the high enclosure wall ( temenos ) it was transformed into a sanctuary. Source: Internet

Pausanias 8.38.7 Pausanias also discusses the temenos of Zeus, a sacred precinct which humans were forbidden to enter. Source: Internet

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