cella

noun

(architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.

The cella is the central part of an ancient Greek or Roman temple.

意味（1）

(architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.

Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus.