Hekatompedon temple
Sign in to saveThe Hekatompedon or Hekatompedos (, from , "hundred", and πούς, "foot"), also known as Ur-Parthenon and H–Architektur, was an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens built from limestone in the Archaic period, and it was located in the position of the present Parthenon.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Hekatompedon
- Building.image
- Hekatompedon sculpture.jpg
- Building.caption
- Sculpture from the east pediment center depicting a lioness killing a calf
- Building.building_type
- Temple for the worship of Athena
- Building.architectural_style
- Ancient Greek Archaic
- Building.location
- Athens, Greece
- Building.pushpin_map
- Greece
- Building.owner
- Greek government
- Building.current_tenants
- Museum
- Building.construction_start_date
- ca. 570 BC
- Building.completion_date
- ca. 550 BC
- Building.destruction_date
- 490 BC
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The Hekatompedon or Hekatompedos (, from , "hundred", and πούς, "foot"), also known as Ur-Parthenon and H–Architektur, was an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens built from limestone in the Archaic period, and it was located in the position of the present Parthenon.
== Etymology == The name of the temple, "Hekatompedon", was found in inscriptions and is translated as “one hundred feet long”. Differing significantly from modern measurement systems, the length of their "foot" measurement may be seen by comparison: in modern measurements the length of the temple was 46 meters (whereas, using a modern measurement, their "one hundred feet" would only amount to approximately 30 meters).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hekatompedon temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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