Next, let the cella wall be set up, recessed within the stylobate about one fifth of the breadth thereof, and let a place for folding doors be left in the middle to afford entrance.
At Eleusis, the cella of Ceres and Proserpine, of vast size, was completed to the roof by Ictinus in the Doric style, but without exterior columns and with plenty of room for the customary sacrifices.
Thus built, the effect of the design will be beautiful, there will be no obstruction at the entrance, and the walk round the cella will be dignified.
Let the columns round the cella be arranged in the symmetrical proportions just given.
The length of a temple is adjusted so that its width may be half its length, and the actual cella one fourth greater in length than in width, including the wall in which the folding doors are placed.
The walls of the cella itself should be thick in proportion to its size, provided that their antae are kept of the same thickness as the columns.
Those that are without a cella have a raised platform and a flight of steps leading to it, one third of the diameter of the temple.
The walls of the cella in front and in the rear should be directly over against the four middle columns.
Since the external appearance of the Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic proportions has now been described, it is necessary next to explain the arrangements of the cella and the pronaos.
Even the Temple of Ceres appears to have been Tuscan in general disposition, its cella having been triply divided and its intercolumniations excessively great, as may be seen by the remains of a later restoration still existing in S.
The remains of the better-preserved cella show it to have been entirely monolithic.
As the columns had, in general, only a decorative importance, it was not necessary to construct a cella in connection with them.
A temple in which the columns surrounding the cella are engaged upon a continuous enclosure wall, as in the great temple of Acragas (Agrigentum).
It was first noticed by Cockerell in 1829 that the axes of the columns surrounding the cella are not vertical, but lean inward.
In this cella we possess the oldest and the only Semitic temple known, still in admirable preservation, although the downfall of the crumbling mass is predicted by the authorities who accompanied the Phoenician expedition.
The stone revetment has been almost entirely carried away, and every trace of the temple cella which must have surmounted these terraces, as it did those of Chaldaea, has disappeared.
The passage surrounding thecella of a peripteral temple.
The most obvious considerations make it evident that ceiling and roof of the primitive cella were originally of wood.
It may be identified with the infundibulum, pituitary body, and ‘cella turcica’.
Each of the pillars within the cellawas engaged or attached to the wall, by joinings at right angles with it, the first pair only reaching forward toward the spectator as he entered.
The extraordinary power of grouping in the designs of Phidias is, however, very completely shown us in the better preserved band of the cella frieze, along which the splendid Panathenaic procession winds its triumphal way.
The size of the main hall, or men's apartment, is very large, the floor covering about 120 square yards, and the parallel room in the palace at Troy was consequently taken to be the cella of a temple.
Among the Elgin marbles there are a good many of the metopes, and also of the pieces of the cella frieze preserved.
The pillars are indeed by no means monoliths, but set together of short drums, of which the inner row are but the rounded ends of long blocks which reach back to the cella wall.
Ledscha was still standing by the doorpost of the cella with uplifted hand, so deeply absorbed in fervent prayer that she did not perceive the approach of the messenger until he called her.
It stood at the back of the cella in a place accessible to the priesthood alone, visible only through the open doors, upon a pedestal which his fellow-artists pronounced rather too high.
He had entered the cella of the sanctuary with the expectation of finding a peculiar, probably a powerful work, but one repugnant to his taste, and left it fairly overpowered by the beauty of this noble work of art.
Yet it seemed impossible to return to the cabin; the memory of Ledscha imploring vengeance, and the stern image of the avenging goddess in the cella of the little Temple of Nemesis, completely mastered him.
The most aristocratic among the gentlemen had gathered on the western side of the great sanctuary, between the cella and the long row of Doric columns which supported the roof of the marble temple.
The cella of the temple of Heracles underwent considerable modifications in Roman times, and the discovery in it of a statue of Asclepius seems to show that the cult of this deity superseded the original one.
It should be noted that their traditional names, with the exception of that of Zeus and that of Asclepius, have no foundation in fact, while the attribution of the temple in antis, into the cella of which the church of S.
The plan of the temple is chiefly remarkable for the unsymmetrically placed door leading from the back of the cella into the opisthodomus.
The little library was screened off from the cella by a curtain, and while I was hunting through the manuscripts I heard a woman's voice.
Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column.
In all essentials the arrangements are the same, a cella raised upon an important base and surrounded by a colonnade.
The trench dug to receive the footing stones of the cella walls is the hole into which the seed is thrown from which the whole temple is to spring.
Its cella was an inclosed chamber, illuminated only by the door and by a few openings contrived in the roof, and reserved for the god who inhabited it.
As long as the cella was large enough to admit supports of the ordinary diameter without encumbering the space or destroying its proportions, we find the columns inside.
The ornamentation of the cella was especially rich.
The accompanying illustration shows a corner of the floor laid over the greater part of the cella (3 on the plan); the parts along the inner walls were of white mosaic.
Temple of Fortuna Augusta--rear of thecella with the statue of the goddess, restored.
There were also in the walls of the cella four niches for statues, of which two have been found.
Section of the wall decoration in the cella of the temple of Jupiter.
Both the portico and the cellano doubt had a coffered ceiling.
Probably statues of the latter were set up elsewhere, so that the cella was left free for less important personages.
The niche representing the cella was of the full width of the tomb, and occupied two thirds of the depth; the other third was given to the portico.
On the long pedestal at the right of the cella stood a deer of terra cotta, above life size, of which some fragments have been found.
Rear of the cella in the temple of Fortuna Augusta, with the statue of the goddess, restored.
Section of wall decoration in the cella of the temple of Jupiter.
The frieze, three feet and four inches in height, raised forty feet above the pavement of the peristyle, ran for five hundred and twenty-four continuous feet round the outside wall of the cella of the Parthenon.
The cella was divided into three sections, the middle one of which was sacred to Jupiter, that on the right to Minerva, that on the left to Juno Regina; the top of the pediment was ornamented with a terra-cotta quadriga.
The first edifice has the shape of a square hall with three apses,--cella trichora.
The temple itself was also most unusual, for instead of a narrow cella sufficient only for the colossal image of the deity, there was a vast nave, and room for a large concourse of worshipers.
The cella wall within is also practically intact, and inside it are still standing large sections of the unusual engaged half-columns which encircled the cella, standing against its sides.
Doric temple, the exterior columns are set without regard to the cella wall, and the columns of the vestibules.
There were probably no windows of any kind, so that the cellareceived no daylight, except such as entered by the great front doorway, when the doors were open.
An even meaner material, sun-dried brick, was sometimes, perhaps often, employed for cella walls.
Here the side walls of the cella are prolonged in front and terminate in antae (see below, page 88).
Although the cella there is only 21 1/4 feet in breadth, we find, as in large temples, a double row of columns to help support the ceiling.
Many have been the doubts and disputes among the antiquaries, which of these halls have the best claims to be considered as the once wonderful Cella Solearis.
The number which ranged round the cella was thirty-eight.
The walls of the cellarise only two feet from the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cella" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
