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The cult statue of Athena Lindia has been reconstructed from the votive statuettes as a seated figure of Athena with a polos crown. The temple was burned in 342 BC, and replaced by a new temple in the late 4th-century BC. It was built in the Doric style. It was 7.75 x 21.65 m. The new cult statue was a standing figure of Athena carrying a ...
The Doric Temple of Athena Lindia, dating from about 300 BC, built on the site of an earlier temple. Inside the temple is the table of offerings and the base of the cult statue of Athena. The Propylaea of the Sanctuary, also dating from the 4th century BC. A monumental staircase leads to a D-shaped stoa and a wall with five door openings.
It contains decrees of Lindians, as well report on previous dedications of rulers and generals to Athena Lindia. The chronicle is inscribed on a marble slab, approximately eight-by-three feet, which is now broken into two pieces. [2] The catalogue of dedications contains about forty-five entries, though only thirty-seven are still legible.
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The “unusual” structure was filled with “surprises,” archaeologists said.
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The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
Right where the temple of Athena is located, there once was another, more archaic temple, still in the doric style, as archaeological discoveries during the excavations of 1912 and 1917 confirmed. [1] They included architectural elements, terracottas and part of an altar, datable to the sixth century BC. [1]