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| Context: |
Akragas |
| Type: |
Temple |
| Summary: |
Doric temple, its superstructure reconstructed in the 19th c. from various fragments. |
Architectural Order:
Doric
Plan:
Only the foundations remain, and, at the northwest corner, a group of four columns with entablature was incorrectly reconstructed.
History:
The 1836 reconstruction of the group of columns incorporated architectural elements of various periods and various buildings from this site.
Sources Used:
PECS, 23-6
Other Bibliography:
E.A. Freeman, History of Sicily (1891). A. Holm, Storia della Sicilia nell'antichità (1896-1900). Koldewey and Puchstein, Die Griechischen Tempel in Unteritalien und Sizilien (1899). B. Pace, Arte e civiltà della Sicilia antica (1935-1949). J. Berard, La colonisation grecque le l'Italie Méridionale et de la Sicile dans l'antiquité (1957). G.E. Rizzo, Monete greche della Sicilia (1946). T.J. Dunbabin, The Western Greeks (1948). L. Pareti, Sicilia antica (1959). M.I. Finley, Ancient Sicily (1968). G. Schubring, Topografia storica di Agrigento (1888). P. Marconi, Agrigento, topografia ed arte (1929). P. Marconi, Agrigento Arcaica (1933). P. Griffo, Ultimi scavi e scoperte in Agrigento (1946). P. Griffo and G. Schmiedt, Agrigento antica dalle fotografie aeree e dai recenti scavi (1958). P. Griffo, Agrigento-Cuida ai monumenti e agli scavi (1962).
