Temple of Segesta
Title
Temple of Segesta
Date
ca. 420 BCE
Identifier
5351
Creator2
Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)
Work Type
Single Built Works
Work Location
Italy (nation)
Rovine di Segesta (deserted settlement)
Style/Period
Archaic (Greek)
Subject
temples (buildings)
Doric order
Description
View from a distance at the Doric temple at Segesta in 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.
Measurements
ca. sixty meters long, twenty-six meters wide
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Reproduction Source
35
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
GPB-GRK2-1096
- Date Added
- August 29, 2013
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- Doric, temples
- Citation
- “Temple of Segesta,” LTU Digital Images, accessed May 4, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/12010.