abaton

Definitions

1. An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
2. Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
3. An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.

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Examples

“There were a series of bathing houses for hydropathy. The abatons, lofty and airy sleeping chambers with their southern sides and open⟳ colonnade, are singularly like⟳ the open⟳ balconies of our tuberculosis sanatoria.”

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