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Segesta,
Sicily - by Alessandro Di Maio (Italy) |
The ancient
greek temple of Segesta
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The unfinished
hexastyle doric temple of Segesta, (late 5th century
BC) is built on a hilltop just outside the ancient city
of Segesta with a commanding view of the surrounding
area. It is one of the best-preserved Greek temples,
partly because of its isolation— there was never
any temptation to dilapidate it for local building materials—
and never desecrated because it had never been completed.
It would be a peripteral temple if it had ever had an
enclosed cella within it. But it was never roofed over,
and its columns stand in the rough, waiting to be fluted.
It was built by the Elymian people, probably around
430-420 BC, but it was never completed. It is a Doric
temple of a peripteral type with 6×14 columns
on a base measuring 21×56m and three steps high.
The structure of the temple is intact with entablature
and tympana in place, but it was clearly never finished.
The columns are unfluted, the tabs used for lifting
the blocks are still present on the base, and there
are no traces of a cella or a roof. The temple of Segesta
is, in its construction, style, and size, a standard
product for the late 5th century BC, but its unfinished
state and its remarkable state of conservation makes
it one of the most important surviving Hellenic temples
in the world.
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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Ruins
of the Priory of Saint-Cosme, Indre-et-Loire's Department
- FRANCE |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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A panoramic
view from the ancient greek temple of Segesta - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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A
second panoramic view from the ancient greek temple
of Segesta - ITALY |
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The
ancient greek temple of Segesta, in the province of
Trapani, Sicily - ITALY |
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