Finally, the square die or abacus which supports the architrave is much higher and more important than in the columns hitherto described, and it bears a mask of Hathor surmounted by a naos upon each of its four sides.
What is the meaning of the small naos or shrine upon her head?
Under the frieze of the naos an oval with the prenomen of Rameses II.
The naosof the temple served only to house the great image of the Divinity with other minor statues of the same or of kindred significance together with the gifts presented to the shrine.
The Parthenon had all of these: a horizontal band along the top of each wall of the naos filled with bas-reliefs; high reliefs in the metopes, statues in both pediments.
Very little is left of the bounding walls, but it has been ascertained that several of these chambers were dedicated to one or other of the deities between whom the naos was apportioned.
Here too we find a very simple form of temple, but the naosbeing large enough to admit, and even to demand, the use of internal columns, it never entered the architect's head to surround it with a portico externally.
But whether these are numerous or few, the naos never has any great depth.
A niche contrived in the further wall of the naos acted the part of a secos.
Its position shows it to be meant for a vestibule to the naos properly speaking.
All the important part of the ritual was performed in the open air, and the few liturgical acts in the naos were short and took place before a very restricted audience.
The Egyptian polytheism was always more mixed, more strongly tinged with fetishism than that of Greece.
From the tomb of Ra-ka-pou, Sakkarah, 5th dynasty.
The divinities were fewer in number and consequently more fixed and decided in their individual characteristics.
The steamer being not yet sighted, we put in at Naos Island, where the bulky policeman in charge led us to dinner at the I.
Naos Island to Paraiso, the name and price of every known beverage.
In other parts of the same building were to be seen two superb obelisks, a recumbent figure similar to that at Memphis, and a monolithicnaos of rose granite brought from the quarries of Elephantine.
Nekhabît at El-Kab, and of Horus at Edfu, in which latter place he has left an admirable naos which delights the modern traveller by its severe proportions and simplicity of ornament, while Nectanebo II.
The naos of Sais, which amazed Herodotus, was much larger than either of the two already mentioned, or, indeed, than any known example.
The naos of Saft el-Hinneh must have been smaller, but it is impossible to determine its exact dimensions.
Mas na ponta da tierra Gingapura Veras, onde o caminho as naos se estreyta, De aqui tornando a costa a Cynosura Se encurva, e para a Aurora se endereyta.
The great distance of the shafts from the wall reduces the naos to a corridor-like narrowness, the more noticeable as the whole temple plan is very long.
The naos was divided by ranges of columns into three chief aisles, and the gallery over the sides was carried across the nave, next to the rear wall.
Upon the principal eastern front was a hexastyle portico, a, through which entrance was given to the naos of Athene Polias, b, occupying nearly one half of the cella.
The remaining interior was partitioned into two chambers of unequal size: the naos and the opisthodomos, the latter of which served as a treasury.
The Naos was, like Mount Sinai, the sanctuary of Jehovah, fenced off from the Gentiles’ court, the plain below.
The Naos was small (sixty by twenty cubits), and was divided into the Holy of Holies and Holy Place, the former used once a year, the latter occupied only by the priests performing daily service.
The building called the Naos would seem to have stood on the summit of the rock, in which graduated platforms were cut, forming the courts of the Jews and women.
Quarters for eight companies of coast-defense troops are being established on the Naos Island dumps.
The distinguishing features of the ends of the canal are the big breakwaters at Toro Point, at the Atlantic end, and Naos Island, at the Pacific end.
A huge dump or breakwater has been built from the mainland at Balboa out to Naos Island and this, in turn, has been connected with Perico and Flamenco by large stone causeways.
The doors are so arranged that in neither temple can the naos be seen by one standing outside the building.
It should be noticed that in the little temple the doors into the naos were so placed that the image in the sanctuary could not be seen from without.
Spain's finances had fallen into a lamentable state, and the Naos de Acapulco was, perforce, withdrawn.
Then Acapulco was chosen, and for more than two hundred years the State-galleon, Naos de Acapulco, yearly came and went across the Pacific, carrying tribute for Spain.
It formed part of the ornamentation of a temple or naos door; and the other side was either built into a wall or imbedded in a piece of wood.
Each head supports a fluted cornice, on which stands a naos framed between two volutes, and crowned by a slender abacus (fig.
It will be seen from the map that the dredged sea channel by which our vessel will reach deep water on the Pacific passes to the west of the Isle of Naos instead of to the east, as was proposed in the earlier plans.
On the southern slope about the same number of steam shovels are at work, the spoil being taken to the southern dumping grounds on the Pacific side, including the trestle dump for the breakwater to Naos Island.
Positive proof is not to be hoped for in the absence of the upper walls of the naos, but probability is in favor of Dörpfeld's assumption, that the naos is older than the peristyle, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: reliquary; shrine; stupa; tope
