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GERESTOS (Ancient port) KARYSTOS
It has a temple of Poseidon, the most notable of those in that part of the world, and also a noteworthy settlement.
KARYSTOS (Ancient city) EVIA
Site: Delos
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; the most westerly of the 5
treasuries which form an arc northeast of the 3 Temples of Apollo in the Sanctuary
of Apollo.
Date: ca. 600 B.C. - 500 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
Four columns dividing cella into 2 aisles. Cella opening south onto a pronaos
with 4 Doric columns in antis.
History:
This treasury is also reconstructed as having up to 6 columns in the cella and
up to 6 columns, prostyle, on the pronaos. The treasury was probably built by
the Karystians.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 1 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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