The adyton would often house the cult image of the god.

On the left wall of the adyton, small very thin scratched lines were discovered.

The adyton (inner shrine) stands above a flight of steps.

The new structure included a pronaos, a cella, and an adyton.

The two faults cross one another, and they intersect right below where the adyton was probably located.

It had a dark crypt-like adyton from where the oracle delivered her prophecies.

Nyx occupies a cave or adyton, in which she gives oracles.

The adyton was topped by a conch-shaped falf-dome.

Most accounts locate the Omphalos in the temple adyton near the Pythia.

In Archaic temples, a separate room, the so-called adyton was sometimes included in the cella for this purpose.

Choosing the word Adyton as a title for his record also shows the Szabados' philosophical thinking about his music.

Inside was the adyton, the centre of the Delphic oracle and seat of Pythia.

The sekos is separated from the adyton by a wall which was built in a later phase, in the fourth century BC.

Schwandner links the shared feature of an adyton with a common, regional practice in the cult of Artemis.

It has been disputed as to how the adyton was organized, but it appears clear that this temple was unlike any other in Ancient Greece.

In some cases, the 'adyton' was a free-standing structure within the cella, eg. temple G in Selinus.

In his reconstruction, the temple is prostyle-tetrastyle in plan, and has a pronaos and - significantly - an adyton at the back of the cella.

The adyton was frequently a small area at the farthest end of the cella from the entrance: at Delphi it measured just nine by twelve feet.

In Delphi, the Pythia became filled with the pneuma of Apollo, said to come from a spring inside the Adyton.

Although the temple is poorly preserved, it can be reconstructed to have had four columns in the cella and an adyton at the rear of the cella.

A cella may also contain an adyton, an inner area restricted to access by the priests-in religions that had a consecrated priesthood-or by the temple guard.

Proclus (412-485 AD) wrote that the adyton of the temple of Neith in Sais (of which nothing now remains) carried the following inscription:

The Oracle then descended into the adyton (Greek for "inaccessible") and mounted her tripod seat, holding laurel leaves and a dish of Kassotis spring water into which she gazed.

Step 3: Visit to the Oracle - The supplicant would then be led into the temple to visit the adyton, put his question to the Pythia, receive his answer and depart.

The usual door leading to a cella was replaced by a blank wall with a large upper opening through which one could glimpse the upper part of the naiskos in the inner court (adyton).