Context: | Corinth |
Type: | Temple |
Summary: | Peripteral temple; in the Sanctuary of Apollo. |
Date: | ca. 540 BC |
Dimensions: | Column shaft height: ca. 4 m; column base diameter: ca. 1.9 m. |
Region: | Corinthia |
Period: | Archaic |
Plan:
Doric peripteral temple, 6 x 15 columns. Double cella, one opening west, one opening east, with no door adjoining the 2 rooms. Each cella had 2 rows of columns and a pronaos which was distyle in antis. A total of 38 columns.
History:
This temple replaces an earlier temple, ca. 625 B.C., on the same location.
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