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The Apollo Temple on Sikinos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2013
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Modern archaeological effort, in its zeal to exhibit every surviving vestige of antiquity, has removed from most ancient buildings all the accretions of later ages, and although much has been gained for our knowledge of their original condition quite as much has often been lost to our realisation of history. The buildings of the ancients, when no longer needed for their first purposes, were not always or even generally destroyed; they were adapted to the needs of the newer world, and of this process, by which the Parthenon became first a church and then a mosque, and the theatre of Marcellus at Rome is still an inhabited block of shops and dwellings, a small but interesting example is to be found on the island of Sikinos, where the temple of the Pythian Apollo, at some period converted into a church by the addition of the features necessary to the Greek rite, still remains in that condition as the church of the Episkope. It is, therefore, not the cleaned-up ruin to which our eyes have grown so accustomed, but an untouched historical document of the vicissitudes undergone by so many of the buildings of antiquity.
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page 31 note 1 Cf. Solon, 2 (Bergk).
Εἴην δὴ τότ᾿ ἐγὼ Φολεγάνδριος ἤ Σικινήτης ᾿Αντί γ᾿ ῾Αθηναίου, πατρίδ᾿ ἀμειψἀμενος
page 31 note 2 Ross, , Reisen auf den griechischen Inseln, i. pp. 150–153Google Scholar, with a steel engraving of the temple made from a sketch by his companion Carl Ritter. This engraving is copied in the rough woodcut in Gavalás' book Περὶ τῆς νήσου Σικίνου πραγματεία κ.τ.λ. ὑπὸ Ζαφειρίου Δ.Γαβαλᾶ, ἐν ᾿Αθήναις , 1885, which contains (pp. 19–23) an account of the temple. Ross repeated his description at greater length in Ἀρχαιολογία τῆς νήσου Σικίνου published in the 1837 Programme (Πίναξ) of the University of Athens. In this he publishes the two inscriptions found at the temple and a plan and front elevation. The other references are Tozer, , Islands of the Aegean, 1890, p. 92Google Scholar and Bent, , Cyclades, p. 175Google Scholar.
page 33 note 1 This is stated in most accounts of the temple. Ross (Reisen) says that it is built into the outbuildings at the west end of the temple. I have no note on the point, but of the association of the temple with the inscription there is no doubt. It is published by Ross in his Ἀρχαιολογία τῆς νήσου Σικίνου mentioned above.
page 33 note 2 C.I.G. 2447.
page 33 note 3 Vitruvius, iv, ch. 5.
page 36 note 1 This difference in level has probably helped the local belief mentioned by Ross, that there is a large vault underneath the floor of the temple.