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Sunium: Another Time Round

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Hugh Plommer
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I have now had time to study the interesting paper, ‘The Temple of Poseidon’, in which W. B. Dinsmoor Jr. corrects other recent studies, including two of my own, of this famous temple on Cape Sunium. He reassembles the cornice-blocks, so far as he can, and attempts restorations of the roof-gutters above them and the pteron ceilings behind them. I admire the ability and envy the good fortune with which he has turned to good account long stretches of time and the resources and goodwill of apothekai; and I think he has argued convincingly for geison-blocks virtually square in plan at all four corners of the building, much more natural as these are than the oblong blocks which were all that Orlandos and I myself could get. It is interesting, too, that he should add yet another transferred ingredient to the Temple of Ares in the Agora.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 71 , November 1976 , pp. 113 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1976

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References

1 AJA 1974, 210–38.

2 W. B. Dinsmoor Sr., AAG, 107.

3 Op. cit. 227–38.

4 BSA 1950 and BSA 1960.

5 BSA 1950 and BSA 1960 223.

6 For the precise figures, giving the brittle beams of Sunium the greater length, see Dinsmoor Jr., 220, col. 1.

7 For the precise figures, giving the brittle beams of Sunium the greater length 220.

8 He calls it ‘Agrilezza’ marble in n. 23, but this seems a slip.

9 Op. cit. 221.

10 Op. cit. 218.

11 Dugas-Clemmensen, Le Sanctuaire d'Aléa Athéna à Tégée au IVe siécle, pls. 22–5 and 55.

12 Picard, Charles, L'Acropole, i, pl. 53.Google Scholar

13 Koch, op. cit., pl. 42.

14 BSA lv (1960) 225, figs, ii–iv, and pl. 59 (b).

15 The two published in AE 1900, pl. 9, and the fragment that I published in BSA 1960.

16 AE 1917, p. 226.