Overall view from SW, Olympia, Metroon
Plan, Olympia, Metroon
Overall view from NE, Olympia, Metroon
Overall view from W, Olympia, Metroon
| Context: | Olympia |
| Type: | Temple |
| Summary: | Small peripteral temple; on the north side of the Sanctuary of Zeus (Altis), south of the Treasury Terrace and east of the Temple of Hera. |
| Date: | ca. 400 BC - 300 BC |
| Dimensions: | 10.62 m x 20.67 m. |
| Region: | Elis |
| Period: | Late Clas./Hell. |
Plan:
Doric peripteral temple, 6 x 11 columns, with cella opening east onto a pronaos distyle in antis. It had a distyle in antis opisthodomos on the west. A colonnade of unknown order along the north and south cella walls.
History:
Dedicated to the Mother of the Gods, sometimes called Cybele. The cult of the Mother of the Gods was displaced in Roman times by that of Augustus and Rome.
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