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The Upper Terraces at Perachora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Extract

The ancient remains in the Heraion Valley at Perachora are arranged in three groups. Firstly, by the little harbour the group including the West Court, the sixth-century temple of Hera Akraia (and, before that, the earliest temple), the altar, and the angled stoa. Secondly, above the first, rather steep section of the valley, and partly concealed behind a spur of the hill to the south, the double apsidal cistern and the hestiatorion. Thirdly, some distance behind this, and preceded by the ‘sacred pool’, the series of terraces, on the uppermost of which is the building identified as the Temple of Hera Limenia. This identification has led to the idea that there were, in effect, two sanctuaries; in publishing the double apsidal cistern and the hestiatorion I include them in ‘remains outside the two sanctuaries’

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1977

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References

1 For all this, and the identification of the temples, see Perachora i. The West court (the ‘agora’ of the original publication) renamed by Coulton, J. J.BSA lxii (1967) 368.Google Scholar

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12 RA 1967 33, fig. 3.

13 L. Jeffrey, Local Scripts of Archaic Greece 122 f.

14 Salmon, loc. cit. L. Jeffrey, loc. cit. had previously suggested the ‘altar’ was in final disuse ‘after the fourth century’.

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