Date |
420 BC |
Column ratio |
15x6 |
Internal columns |
11 |
Function |
Unknown whether unusual internal arrangements reflect requirements of particular cult. |
Traditional elements |
Limestone covered with stucco for main structure and marble for any sculptural decoration. Basically traditional temple layout on foundations of earlier temple with 3 step stylobate and peristyle of columns (unusually 6x15) surrounding core of pronaos, naos and opisthodomos. |
Layout and proportion |
Faces north with unusual door in east side opening into extended part of naos, resulting in a slightly longer than usual building in proportion to its width. |
Combining the orders |
Wholly Doric exterior. Naos with 10 Ionic half-columns (unusual volutes) on spur walls and free-standing prototype Corinthian column supporting Ionic frieze (2 myths – Greeks & Amazons and Centaurs & Lapiths). |
Interior and exterior decoration |
Plain exterior as characteristic of Doric order but apparently with 12 sculpted metopes over pronaos and opisthodomos as at Zeus Olympia and surprising Ionic decoration in interior as above. |
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