opisthodomos

[ op-is-thod-uh-muh s, -mos ]

/ ˌɒp ɪsˈθɒd ə məs, -ˌmɒs /

Also called posticum. a small room in the cella of a classical temple, as for a treasury.

epinaos.

Origin of opisthodomos

1690–1700; < Greek opisthódomos, equivalent to opistho- opistho- + dómos house

The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 |Various
The most celebrated example of such ornamentation was the box of Kypselos, in the opisthodomos of the temple of Hera at Olympia.

Museum of Antiquity |L. W. Yaggy
But, if the western room of the Periclean temple was the opisthodomos, where was the proper?

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 |Various
Demosthenes (xxiv, 136) speaks of a fire in the opisthodomos.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 |Various

The pronaos and opisthodomos were each bounded by two Doric columns between antae, surmounted by metopes.

A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) |A. H. Smith