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CELLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 604 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELLA  , in

architecture, the Latin name for the sanctuary of a
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Roman temple, corresponding with the naos of the Greek temple . In the
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Etruscan temples, according to Vitruvius, there were three cellas, side by side; and in the temple of
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Venus built by Hadrian at Rome there were two cellas, both enclosed, however, in a single peristyle .

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