Description
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first in a series providing detailed and up-to-date analyses of excavations and fieldwork conducted over more than a century at the Argive Heraion, site of a succession of religious buildings high above the plain of Argos.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; List of tables; Bibliography and abbreviations; Introduction; Materials and techniques of construction; The foundations; The ramp; The krepidoma of the peristyle; The columns of the peristyle; The entablature of the peristyle; The pediments; The roof; The floor and ceiling of the peristyle; The porch facades; The walls of the porches and cella; The moldings; Polychromy; The date and style of the temple; Repairs and later history of the temple; Appendix 1: Catalogue of architectural elements; Appendix 2: The survey of the foundations and the preparation of the actual-state plan; Appendix 3: Note on the foot unit of the temple and list of the principal dimensions; Appendix 4: Report on marble analysis; Concordance; Index of architectural elements and sculpture in collections; Index of ancient sources; General index.
