Crossword-Solution: EPINAOS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

This deficiency could hardly be overcome otherwise than by a repetition of a portico upon the back, creating the epinaos, and carrying the entablature of triglyphs and metopes around the entire building, thus perfecting the _amphiprostyle_ temple.

The cella was often greatly increased in length; this made its transverse division desirable, and there resulted the front portico, or pronaos, the principal hall of the temple, or naos, and the space partitioned off at the rear, called, analogically, the epinaos.

After them follows the music of the procession--players upon the flute and lyre and the festive chorus; then begins the long line of chariots and of horses with their riders, which fill the greater part of the zophoros upon the longer sides and all of that over the epinaos.

Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos.

The term cella is comprehensive, including pronaos, naos, and, if such there be, opisthodomos and epinaos.