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Narthex

noun

Portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church.

A vestibule leading to the nave of a church.

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"Narthex" Quotes from Famous Books

... guest-house, opening from a cloister (C). The inner court is surrounded by a cloister (EE), from which open the monks' cells (II). In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex. In front of the church stands a marble fountain (F), covered by a dome supported on columns. Opening from the western side of the cloister, but actually standing in the outer court, is the refectory (G), a large cruciform building, about 100 feet each way, decorated ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... "filling a rod," [Greek: plerotos] here being active. Cf. Agam. 361, [Greek: ates panalotou]. Choeph. 296, [Greek: pamphtharto moro]. Pers. 105, [Greek: polemous pyrgodaiktous]. See also Blomfield, and Porson on Hes. 1117, [Greek: narthex] is "ferula" or "fennel-giant," the pith of which makes excellent fuel. Blomfield quotes Proclus on Hesiod, Op. 1, 52, "the [Greek: narthex] preserves flame excellently, having a soft pith inside, that nourishes, but can not extinguish the flame." For a strange fable ...

— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

Words linked to "Narthex" : basilica, anteroom, hall, church building, entrance hall, antechamber, church, portico, vestibule, lobby, foyer