Saturday, November 05, 2022
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Andrew Stewart, Art in the Hellenistic World: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 13:
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Temple of Athena at Priene in western Anatolia (Turkey). Designed in the 340s by the city's native son, the great architect Pytheos, but not completed for 300 years, it exemplified the so-called Ionian renaissance in architecture; its southeast corner also anchored the city's grid. Unfortunately, in 1965-66 a contractor, working independently, reerected five of its columns incorrectly, omitting part of their bases and several upper drums, making them almost 10 ft. shorter than they should be. By the late second century, the temple housed a colossal replica of Pheidias's fifth-century Athena Parthenos at Athens as a cult image. Original column H 37 ft. 5 in. (11.4 m); present H ca. 28 ft. (8.5 m).
