Building Catalog Name: Olympia, Palaestra

Plan:

Doric peristyle court, 19 x 19 columns, with water channel and series of rooms arranged on all 4 sides. On the south side of the peristyle was a colonnade of 15 Ionic columns and a small entrance room at either corner. On the north side an ephebeum (exercise room) had an inner colonnade of 9 Ionic columns. On the west and east sides of the court, smaller colonnades and doors opening onto various rooms.

66.35 m x 66.75 m; court: 41.42 m x 41.52 m.

Dinsmoor 1975, 320; Mallwitz 1972, 278-284; PECS, 649

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