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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPINAOS (Gr. Eri, after, and vans, a See also:temple)  , in See also:architecture, the open See also:vestibule behind the See also:nave ... The See also:term is not found in any classic author, but is a See also:modern coinage, originating in See also:Germany, to differentiate the feature from " opisthodomus," which in the See also:Parthenon was an enclosed chamber .

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