near Veio) had three cellae, side by side, conjoined by a double row of columns on the façade. This is an entirely new setup with respect to the other types of constructions found in Etruria and the Tyrrhenian side of Italy, which have one cell with or without columns, as seen in Greece and the Orient.

Egyptian temples

In the Hellenistic culture of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in ancient Egypt, the cella referred to that which

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