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Corinth, Temple of ApolloSite: CorinthType: Temple Summary: Peripteral temple; in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Date: ca. 540 B.C. Period: Archaic Plan: Doric peripteral temple, 6 x 15 columns. Double cella, one opening west, one opening east, with no door adjoining the 2 rooms. Each cella had 2 rows of columns and a pronaos which was distyle in antis. A total of 38 columns. History: This temple replaces an earlier temple, ca. 625 B.C., on the same location. Dimensions: Column shaft height: ca. 4 m; column base diameter: ca. 1.9 m. Other Bibliography: PECS, 240-241; Dinsmoor 1975, 89-90; Rossiter 1981, 241-242
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