Cella is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CELLA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the inner chamber of a classical temple
• the inner area of an ancient temple, especially one housing the hidden cult image in a Greek or Roman temple.
• inner room of a classical temple
• The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the interior of an ancient temple

Words related to CELLA

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Words that contain CELLA

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How to use CELLA in a sentence

• In front of the cella was the vestibule, and in the rear or back a chamber in which the treasures of the temple were kept.
• About five eighths of a Doric temple were occupied by the cella, and three eighths by the portico.
• And within the cella, nearly concealed by surrounding columns, were the statues of the gods, and the altars on which incense was offered, or sacrifices made.
• About half the cella remains, with an elegant frieze and cornice along the top, and a series of tablets, set in panels of ornamental sculpture, running along the sides.
• In ancient Greece the temple had been erected for the god, and the statue dwelt within the cella like a master in his house.
• The commonest type of temple was a hall having at its further end a cella, with a passage behind to allow of circumambulation.
• The peristyle was walled up, and arches were cut through the walls of the cella, exactly as in the great church of Syracuse.
• The cella had been thrown down, but thirty-five out of thirty-eight columns are still standing.
• The work up to 1189 seems to have been compiled by John de Cella, from 1189 to 1235 by Roger of Wendover.
• In the walls of the cella, elevated on seven steps of Parian marble, various statues stood in niches, and those walls were ornamented with the pomegranate consecrated to Isis.

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