Plan, Samos, Temple C
| Context: | Samos, Heraion |
| Type: | Temple |
| Summary: | Temple C, immediately N of main altar in Sanctuary of Hera, Samos |
| Date: | 550 BC - 500 BC |
| Dimensions: | Archaic cella was 5.9 x ca. 8.5 m. (inner dimensions) and the pronaos was as much as 8.2 m. long |
| Region: | Sporades |
| Period: | Archaic |
Plan:
A peripteral (6 x 11) temple, distyle in antis, probably of Ionic order. Colonnade stood on separate foundations, not on stylobate. Uncertain if antae extended to front of structure (as reconstructed) or if there were 6 columns along the front--as along the back. Double row of columns stood inside the deep pronaos and possibly inside the cella as well (not shown on reconstruction).
History:
The late Archaic temple was radically rebuilt (with new cella and pronaos) in Roman era, ca. 1st c. A.D.
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