Context: | Eleusis |
Type: | Peribolos Wall |
Summary: | Triangular wall; in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, next to the Lesser Propylon, on its western side. |
Date: | ca. 400 BC - 300 BC |
Region: | Attica |
Period: | Late Clas./Hell. |
Plan:
Peribolos wall and small temple with cella and pronaos opening east.
History:
Sanctuary to Pluto-Hades, the wall encloses a cave through which Pluto brought Kore back from the underworld. The small temple is ca. 328 B.C., displacing an earlier one on the same location.
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