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Building Catalog Name: Athens, Law Court (Square Peristyle)
Images and Plans | Browse ImagesSite: Athens
Type: Court
Summary: Square roofed colonnade; in the Agora, beneath the Stoa of Attalos.
Date: ca. 338 B.C. - 300 B.C.
Period: Hellenistic
Plan:
Walled square enclosure with entrances on east and west. Inner Doric colonnade of 14 x 14 columns.
History:
Size and location would have made this an appropriate meeting place for the law courts. Travlos dates this building to the time of Lykourgos, 338 - 326 B.C., and states the building was carefully constructed. Camp dates the building to 300 B.C. and considers its construction to have been "shoddy," with the west side unfinished.
Dimensions:
Wall: 58.8 m x 58.8 m; peristyle court: 38.75 m square; aisle: 8.60 m deep; intercolumniation 3.01 m.
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| 1990.33.0090a | Plan |
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| 1990.33.0090a | Plan |