Echinus profile comparison, Assos, Temple of Athena

View from Temple of Athena on Assos acropolis toward S and island of Lesbos

Overall view of temple, from E, Assos, Temple of Athena

Section of entablature block without guttae and with dowel-joining cut at ...

Lifting bosses and unfinished edges on E (front) side of level below the s...

Coffer block from ceiling of Temple of Athena built into wall of 14th cent...

Context: Assos
Type: Temple
Summary: Peripteral temple; on the city acropolis, north of the agora.
Date: ca. 540 BC - 530 BC
Dimensions:

Cella width: 7.97 m; stylobate: 14.03 m x 30.31 m.
Region: Troad
Period: Archaic

Architectural Order:

Doric; one of the only Doric temples in Asia Minor.

Plan:

Doric peripteral temple, 6 x 13 columns. Cella opening east onto a pronaos distyle in antis.

History:

The architrave was decorated with a frieze, adding to the Doric order a feature usually seen only in the Ionic order. Excavation in the cella revealed a pebble mosaic of Hellenistic date, but this is no longer visible.

Other Bibliography:

Dinsmoor 1975, 88, 339; Lawrence 1983, 147-148; PECS, 104-105; Akurgal 1978, 63

See Also: Ionic Frieze (Boston 84.67a-b)