dromos

plural dromoi · plural dromi · alternative dromus

1. historicalAn avenue, especially in Ancient Greece.
2. historicalA walkway to a building, (especially) a ceremonial walkway to a temple or tomb in Ancient Greece or Egypt.

   The grave chambers are usually quadrangular, with stone walls, roofs formed by projecting stones, and doors which were walled up. There is no dromos.

   1904, “Thera: An Early Necropolis”, in American Journal of Archaeology, volume VIII, page 108

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   On the 20th [of December, 1828] they remained an hour at Oudi-Essebours or the Valley of Lions, thus named from the Sphinxes which ornament the dromos of a monument constructed under the reign of Sesostris, but a mere provincial edifice, built of stone cemented with mortar.

   1829 April 23, “Champollion’s Egyptian Expedition”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 351

   In Lower Egypt : Busiris (Ruins near el Bahbeyt) ; Heliopolis or On [near Matarieh], only an obelisk still extant ; Tanis (San), a dromos of granite columns ; Sais [Sa el Haggar], considerable ruins, particularly of the Necropolis ; Taposiris [Abusir].

   1847, Karl Otfried Müller, “Egyptian Art”, in John Leitch, transl., Ancient Art and Its Remains; Or, A Manual of the Archæology of Art, new edition, London: A. Fullarton and Co., translation of Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst (in German), published 1850, page 216

3. historicalA racecourse, especially in Ancient Greece.