Imagery location for Portara on Naxos
a Pleiades
location
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Creators: David Letourneau, Diane Chau, Hunter Carline, Courtney Pham
Creators: David Letourneau, Diane Chau, Hunter Carline, Courtney Pham
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz
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Last modified
Dec 29, 2018 11:45 AM
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History
Location of the entryway of Portara, determined by matching Google satellite imagery with published plans.
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temple
{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 25.372281, 37.110195 ] }
Traces
Certain
representative
- Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC) (confident)
- Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)
- Evidence:
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- Freely, J. 2006. The Cyclades: Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean. London: I.B.Tauris Publishing, 168-169.
- Lavan, L. 2011. "Late Paganism on the Aegean Islands and Processes of Christianisation." In L. Lavan and M. Mulryan, eds., The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 332.
- Morris, S. 2007. "Apollo, Dionysus, and Zeus: on the Sacred Landscape of Naxos." In E. Simantoni-Bournia, ed., Amumona erga: timētikos tomos gia ton kathēgētē Basilē K. Lambrinoudakē. Athens: Kardamitsa, 96-108.
- Spawforth, A. 2006. The Complete Greek Temples. London: Thames & Hudson Publishing,181-182.
Pleiades
The temple's construction was abandoned in 506 BC when Lygdamis was overthrown. The temple is thought to have been converted into a church around the 5th century AD. The entrance was too heavy to be removed during later spoliation, and thus now stands alone as the Portara.