Imagery location for Temple of Aphrodite Euploia
a Pleiades
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Aphrodite
Location of the temple of Aphrodite Euploia at Knidos, based on satellite imagery.
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{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 27.373294, 36.688864 ] }
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representative
- Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC) (confident)
- Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
- Hellenistic-Roman Early Empire (330 BC – AD 300) (confident)
- Evidence:
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- Love, I. 1970. “A Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Knidos, 1969”. American Journal of Archaeology, 74 (2):149-155.
- Love, I. 1972. “A Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Knidos, 1970”. American Journal of Archaeology, 76 (1): 61-76.
- Pedley, J. 2012. Greek Art and Archaeology. London: Lawrence King Publishing.
Pleiades
The location of the center of the Temple of Aphrodite at Knidos, determined from satellite imagery compared with the plan of the building on page 309, figure 9.31 in Pedley, 5th ed. (2012). Pedley dates the building to the later 4th century.