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thumb Temple C at Selinus, Trapani (Sicily), is a Greek temple in the doric style. It was one of the most ancient of the temples at Selinus, having probably been built on the acropolis a little after the middle of the sixth century BC,〔Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, ''Archeologia e conservazione. Teorie, metodologie e pratiche di cantiere'', Maggioli Editore 2008, p. 78, ISBN 88-387-4108-5〕 although its dating is controversial.〔Dieter Mertens, ''Città e monumenti dei greci d'Occidente'', Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider 2006, p.123, ISBN 8882653676.〕 The temple was the object of archaeological research in the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century and later the remains of a long stretch of the northern colonnade received anastylosis (reconstruction using the original material) in 1929.〔Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, ''Op. cit.'', p. 78.〕 After a twelve-year-long restoration, in 2011 the colonnade was freed from scaffolding and made properly visible once more. Temple C, was probably used as an archive (hundreds of seals have been recovered from it) and was dedicated to Apollo, as shown by an inscription,〔IG XIV 269〕 not to Heracles.〔Guido & Tusa 1978 ''Guida archeologica della Sicilia''〕 == Description == Although it shows archaising aspects, it imitates the models of the Greek mainland (such as the Temple of Apollo at Qorinth) in the period in which the canons which would characterise the proportions of the Doric temple were becoming solidified. The building has a peristyle colonnade around the naos (peripteros) with six columns at the front (hexastyle) and seventeen on its long sides,〔Richter, 1969 p.21〕 leading to a very elongated floorplan, far from the canonical 1:2 proportion, but paralleled by some other archaic temples, such as the Temple of Hera at Olympia. A flight of eight steps takes up the whole of the front side, with the rest of the crepidoma has four steps as at the temple in Corinth, following a rule which remains constant in Sicily.〔Charbonneaux, Martin, Villard 1969 p. 183-185.〕 The pronaos has a two rows of columns, not placed in relation to the proportions of the naos. The opisthodomos was transformed in to an empty space behind the naos (''adyton''),〔 as is common among the doric temples of Magna Graecia. The columns were exceptionally slender (8.65 metres high)〔Dieter Mertens, ''Op. cit.,'' pp. 119-120〕 and the intercolumniation was wide in the facade, but on the sides was contracted to a more sensible dimension. The columns' diameters vary widely, following a flexible pattern with little regard for the rules of the doric order, which had already become strict in Mainland Greece.〔 The entablature was unusually high with a cornice made of two rows of stone blocks, surmounted by a gutter (''sima'') in coloured and decorated terracotta, some traces of which have been found and are now kept in the Museo archeologico regionale Antonio Salinas,〔 along with some notable metopai of the frieze. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Temple C (Selinus)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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