Temple E (Selinus)
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Temple E at
Greek temple of Magna Graecia of the Doric order. It is found on the hill to the east of the city's acropolis. Temple E is also known as the Temple of Hera because an inscription found on a votive stela[1] indicates that it was dedicated to Hera;[2] however, some scholars argue that it must have been dedicated to Aphrodite on the basis of structural parallels.[3]
It was built towards the middle of the fifth century BC on top of the foundations of a more ancient building.[4] It is the best conserved of the temples of Selinus but its present appearance is the result of anastylosis (reconstruction using original material) performed—controversially—in 1959, by the Italian archaeologist Jole Bovio Marconi.
Description
The
metopes, for example.[5]
A Doric frieze at the top of the walls of the naos consisted of metopes depicting people, with the heads and naked parts of the women made of
Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum
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Gallery
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Artemis and Actaeon -
Athena and Enceladus -
Zeus and Hera -
Heracles and Antiope
Notes
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- ^ IG XIV 271
- ^ Tony Spawforth, The Complete Greek Temples 2006, p. 131.
- ^ Filippo Coarelli; Mario Torelli, Sicilia (Guide archeologiche Laterza), Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 72-103
- ISBN 8842492205.
- ^ Enzo Lippolis, Monica Livadiotti, Giorgio Rocco, op. cit., 2007, p. 834.
- ^ Gisela M. A. Richter, L'arte greca, tr. it. di Mila Leva Pistoi, Einaudi, Torino 1969, p. 87.
37°35′12″N 12°50′05″E / 37.5866°N 12.8348°E
