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Building Catalog Name: Delphi, Tholos

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Site: Delphi
Type: Tholos
Summary: Circular building; in the center of the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia (Marmaria).
Date: ca. 380 B.C. - 360 B.C.
Period: Late Classical

Plan:

Circular Doric outer peristyle of 20 columns. Southern entrance to a paved interior with 10 Corinthian half-columns.


History:

Probably designed by Theodorus of Phocaea.


Dimensions:

Exterior diameter: 14.76 m; height: 13.5 m.


Other Bibliography:

Rossiter 1981, 403; Dinsmoor 1975, 234-236; de la Coste-Messelière 1943, 333

Views:

1 Plan

Archive NumberCaption
1990.33.0163aPlan

20 Images

Archive NumberCaption
1990.33.0163aPlan
1989.01.0041Distant overall view
1989.v1.0054Overall view of building from NE
1989.v1.0065Overall view from E
1991.04.0117Overall view from NE
1991.04.0120Overview from SE
1989.v1.0061View from E
1989.v1.0063View from NE
1991.04.0125Tholos from W
1991.04.0124Detail of stylobate from S
1991.04.0122Detail of cella wall from S
1991.04.0119Facade from SE
1991.04.0118Doric frieze of the entablature
1991.04.0116Columns and entablature from NE
1989.v1.0064Detail of entablature
1989.v1.0062Section of the entablature
1989.v1.0053Colonnade from NE
1991.04.0121Detail of interior of cella wall from S
1991.04.0123Interior view from SW
1991.04.0126Entablature from within
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