This opisthodomus was completely fenced in with bronze gratings; and the excavators believe it to have been adapted for use as an adytum (shrine).
The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom.
The square itself is perhaps the ground plan of a temple, or adytum of a temple.
Behind the adytum are small rooms for the priests who served in the temple.
In the mysteries a light of this kind shone forth from the adytum of the temple in which they were exhibited.
Another baboon, carved life-size in limestone with an inscription around its base, came out of one of the chambers of the adytum to the sacred cave at Serabit, the work and inscription of which dated it to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
Probably they housed the guardians of the sanctuary, and served as an adytum to the cave of Hathor.
Lobeck says that, on the lifting of the veil exposing the adytum to the gaze of the initiates, apparitions of the gods appeared to them.
The religious reserve and awe about the entrance into the adytumof their traditions were like those about the entrance into the invisible scenes beyond the veils of time and mortality.
The fierce animal charged upon him as he stood in the holy adytum with his curators, and, overthrowing him, gored him to death in a few moments.
There was a unity of design in the whole of the interior of this adytum or presence-chamber, with the distribution of light and the groups of figures shown by it on the walls, that surpassed any apartment I had yet seen.
Do you remember when we last year visited Damascus, seeing, in the painted chamber of the adytum of the mausoleum of Eliezer, a representation of the Hebrew prince Abram, of Syria?
The temple was originally erected to Pthah, anciently the chief deity of Memphis, and dedicated in the present reign to the sacred bull, whose apartment is the original adytum of the temple.
