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Northwest Building

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Chris de Lisle

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified May 04, 2024 07:12 AM — History

The Northwest Building on the Acropolis of Athens was built in the fifth century BC, probably in the 430s BC, north of the Propylaia. It may have been intended as a banqueting hall, but was never completed and remained an open-air courtyard, perhaps used for storage and staging purposes.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/753898783

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.97194, 23.72523

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Representative Locations:
- Google Earth Location: Northwest Building (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

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Northwest Building located on Acropolis of Athens (unspecified date range)

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Place type:
building

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Chris de Lisle, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Northwest Building: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/753898783> [accessed: 08 May 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/753898783 |title=Places: 753898783 (Northwest Building) |author=de Lisle, C. |accessdate=May 8, 2024 12:51 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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