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The classical Erechtheion is the last in a series of buildings approximately on the mid-north site of the Acropolis of Athens, the earliest of which dates back to the late Bronze Age Mycenaean period. L.B. Holland [18] conjectured that the remains under the Erechtheion was the forecourt of a palace complex similar to that of Mycenae. [19]
The caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece.These are now replicas. The originals are in the Acropolis Museum (with one in the British Museum). The caryatid taken by Elgin from the Erechtheion, standing in contrapposto, displayed at the British Museum
Map of ancient Attica. Trittyes belonging to the phyle of Erechtheis are numbered "1" and shaded brown. War memorial for men of the Erechtheis, 460–459 BC. The inscription reads: “Of the Erechteid Tribe, died at war in Cyprus, in Phoenicia, at Halieis, at Egina, at Megara, the same year.’
The Parthenon, on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens. Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ναός, romanized: nāós, lit. 'dwelling', semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion.
A possible sculpture of Erechtheus. Erechtheus (/ ɪ ˈ r ɛ k θj uː s,-θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρεχθεύς) in Greek mythology was a king of Athens, the founder of the polis and, in his role as god, attached to Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus".
The columns of the Erechtheion were also imitated in the Temple of Roma and Augustus on the Acropolis, built ca. 19 BC, where the imitations were enabled by repair work then being undertaken on the Erechtheion itself. The temple of Aphrodite Urania is likely only a little later in date.
Dörpfeld Foundations Temple, south of the Erechtheion. Prior to the archaeological discoveries of the late 19th century, the existence of the archaic temple on the acropolis was known only from literary testimonia, and the few remains from the archaic buildings which have been visible continuously from antiquity to the present day—namely, the unfinished marble column drums and the poros ...
The existence of both the proto-Parthenon and its destruction were known from Herodotus, [53] and the drums of its columns were visibly built into the curtain wall north of the Erechtheion. Further physical evidence of this structure was revealed with the excavations of Panagiotis Kavvadias of 1885–1890.