abaton
noun
- inaccessible place
- building containing trophies erected by Artemisia (fl. C4 BC) in Rhodes, closed to all but a select few
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton), nominalized neuter form of ἄβατος (ábatos, “inaccessible”).
- An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
“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.”
- Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
- An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.