Temple of Segesta

Temple of Segesta

ca. 420 BCE

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Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rovine di Segesta (deserted settlement)

Archaic (Greek)

temples (buildings)

Doric order

columns (architectural elements)

View of the Doric temple at Segesta, Sicily. Gordon Bugbee Collection. "The so-called temple, outside the city walls to the W, is a peristyle of the Doric order, with 6 columns on the facade and 14 on the sides, all unfluted; it is generally dated to the last third of the 5th c. B.C. This building has always been considered an unfinished temple, but it has recently been suggested on rather good grounds that the building was conceived solely as a Greek Doric peristyle meant to delimit a space within which the non-Greek population of Segesta would have practiced an open-air cult on a temporary altar according to the Oriental custom. This peristyle rises outside the city walls, to the W.,"--Perseus Digital Library.

ca. sixty meters long, twenty-six meters wide

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