| Context: | Delos |
| Type: | Hall |
| Summary: | Complex of courts and rooms; west and slightly north of the Sacred Lake. |
| Date: | ca. 125 BC - 100 BC |
| Dimensions: | Column height: ca. 5.3 m. |
| Region: | Cyclades |
| Period: | Hellenistic |
Plan:
A door on the southern side let into a short hall leading to a court with a colonnade on its western side, opening into 4 chapels. West of the entry were small rectangular rooms. East of the 1st court was a rectangular peristyle court with a Doric colonnade and a cistern. On the northwest corner of the structure and entered from the peristyle court was another court with a mosaic pavement, probably a meeting or reunion hall. In the southeast corner were reception halls with halls and shops below in a basement.
History:
Mixed Greek and Syrian design. Built by Syrian merchants and ship owners from Beirut during the time when Delos was briefly the commercial center of Greece, and used as a guild hall or club house. Baal, whom they principally worshipped, was identified with Poseidon, hence the name, Poseidoniasts.
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