Ancient Corinth XXIX - Apollo’s Temple Again

West Façade. 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. Column shaft height: ca. 4 m; column base diameter: ca. 1.9 m. Seven columns and a portion of the architrave remain standing. Five of these columns belong to the western front and two to the southern side of the pteroma, adjacent to the southwestern angle column.
These standing columns of the Archaic temple are one of the most prominent landmarks of Corinth. The dedication of the temple to Apollo is deduced from Pausanias’ description of Corinth combined with a small plaque which was dedicated to Apollo and found in the area. Built in the middle of the 6th century B.C. to replace a destroyed 7th century predecessor, the temple is of the Doric order and originally had six columns at each end and fifteen along each side. Indications of its archaic date include the great length of the temple relative to its width, the large monolithic columns, and the squat, widely flaring capitals.
Although most of this mid-6th century B.C. building has been destroyed, the bedrock preserves cuttings made to receive the foundation blocks and thus allows a reconstruction of the temple’s plan. The interior of the temple consists of a porch at either ends, and a long central part (the cella) divided into two rooms by a cross wall. The traditional reconstruction of the plan makes this cross wall a solid wall and provides access to the western room of the cella through the western door. Alternatively, the cross wall may have been pierced by a doorway, in which case the western room could have served as an inner shrine (an adyton). In any case, two rows of columns ran the length of the building within the interior.
From the Archaic period, access to the hilltop was up a monumental staircase at the southeast corner of the hill. The Roman period, however, introduced many changes to the area. Access to the temple was now from the west. This change resulted from building activity on the other three sides of the hill which blocked off the earlier staircase and quarried into the sides of the hill. The Romans also carried out a radical renovation of the temple itself. The interior columns were removed and some of them were set up in a row near the west end of the South Stoa where they are still standing.

Source ASCSA American School of Classical Studies @ corinth.ascsa.net/id/corinth/monument/temple%20of%20apollo

Doric Archaic temple
About 560 BC
Corinth, Pelopponese

“Apollo’s Temple” “Tempio di Apollo” “Doric Temple” “Tempio dorico” “Archaic Period” “Periodo Arcaico” Corinto Corinth “Doric Order” “Ordine dorico”

Taken on: June 27, 2018

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