Hekatompedon. Roof-gutter

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 3902

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Architectural member

Period

Archaic Period

Date

Around 570 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.165 m
Length: 0.43 m
Width: 0.29 m

Material

Marble from Hymettos

Location

Archaic Acropolis Gallery

Description
Bibliography

Part of the roof-gutter possibly belonging to the southwest corner of the Hekatompedon. Its right side has anathyrosis while the left one is broken off. At the rear, drilled holes for its connection to neighbouring pan tiles and the overlying cover tile are preserved and on the slab’s front side a cylindrical spout is preserved.

The roof-gutter is decorated with alternating, engraved palmettes and lotus flowers blooming out of motifs in the shape of the figure eight. Traces of red paint are scattered all over the slab’s surface, although some decorative elements were originally highlighted with dark blue colour.

Schuchhardt, W.H., «Die Sima des alten Athenatempels der Akropolis», Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 60, 1935/36, σελ. 19-20, πίν. 7.5-6, 13.1, αρ. κατ. 26
Dinsmoor, W.B., «The Hekatompedon on the Athenian Acropolis», American Journal of Archaeology 51, 1947, σελ. 112-113
Ohnesorg, A., Inselionische Marmordächer, Denkmäler antiker Architektur 18,2, New York - Berlin, 1993, σελ. 10-11
Wallat, Ul., Ornamentik auf Marmorsimen des griechischen Mutterlandes, Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XXXVIII 65, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, σελ. 28-35, 189-190, εικ. 1-3, αρ. κατ. VII, 1
Santi, F., I frontoni Arcaici dell’ Acropoli di Atene, Roma, 2010, σελ. 103-107