Temple of Athena

Temple of Athena

340-150 BCE

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visual works

Turkey (nation)

Turunçlar (inhabited place)

Late Classical

temples (buildings)

Athena (Greek deity)

drawings (visual works)

Drawing of the Temple of Athena in Priene, Turkey as it may have looked in ancient times. "Begun ca. 340 B.C.; dedicated by Alexander the Great in 334 B.C., when the east end of the temple was completed at least up to the anta. The date of completion of the entire temple is uncertain - some have detected two distinct building phases, the latter falling in the mid-second century, while others maintain that the temple was substantially complete by the last quarter of the fourth century B.C. The cult statue, a version of the Athena Parthenos, was not installed until ca. 158 -156 B.C., and was probably dedicated by the Cappadocian ruler Orophernes. After 27 B.C., the sanctuary was rededicated to Athena Polias and Augustus, and continued as an important cult center throughout the Imperial period. The transformation of the opisthodomos into a closed space - perhaps a small treasury - may belong to this Roman phase; other scholars date the moldings of the new door of the opisthodomos to the second century B.C., that is, to a second phase of construction. The temple was used as a church in the Byzantine period,"--Perseus Digital Library. Doxiadis Pl. 85

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