An adyton is a niche within the sanctuary of an hellenic model temple which contains the image of the deity - it is thus the most sacred point within a temple complex. Normally the entrance to the temple would be in one of the end walls with the adyton opposite. Unusually, this temple has one at each end, with the entrance in one of the side walls - a feature much more closely related to semitic temple-building traditions.
The north adyton, shown here, was the more important of the two and would have contained the temple's main statue of the god - the southern adyton would have stored a lesser statue which would have been paraded around the temple precincts on important occasions.