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Temple of Artemis Propylaia and Father Poseidon

Temple of Artemis Propylaia and Father Poseidon

Approximately in the middle of the Roman Court stands the raised platform of the temple of Artemis Propylaia and Father Poseidon.

The temple was of pentelic marble and had a wooden roof and ceramic roof tiling. In the front and the back there was a columned porch with doric monolithic columns. The dimensions of the temple were similar to those of the small elegant temple of Athena Nike, on the acropolis of Athens, in accordance with the plan of the Roman emperors to construct, in the eleusinian Sanctuary, edifices that imitated the Athenian equivalent ones.

In front of the temple there are preserved remains of two altars dedicated to the deities who were co-worshipped in it. On the north there are remnants of a pedestal, on which most probably stood the statue of god Poseidon. The construction of the temple is dated to the 2nd cent. AD.

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