What is left of Temple F
Ruins of Temple F in front of the reconstructed Temple E (some of the temples of Selinunte are not attributed to certain gods and have no proper names).
Temple F.
Possibly dedicated to Dionysos or Athena between 550 and 520 BCE, the Doric temple measured 65.7 x 27.4 meters with a 6 x 14 arrangement of columns, each 9.11 meters high.
The oldest and smallest of the three on the East Hill, it has been also the most severely spoliated.
Temple E.
Probably dedicated to Hera, 480-460 BCE, the Doric style temple measures approximately 70 x 27.5 meters and has six columns on each façade and 15 along the sides, each 10.2 meters high. Unusually, parts of the inner cella survive.
It is the most recent of the three temples on the East Hill and the only one to be re-erected.
"Its current appearance is the result of anastylosis (reconstruction using the original material) carried out – controversially – between 1956 and 1959.
Temple E was dedicated to Hera as shown by the inscription on a votive stela, but some scholars deduce that it must have been dedicated to Aphrodite on the basis of structural parallels."
Selinunte, Sicily. 2018
What is left of Temple F
Ruins of Temple F in front of the reconstructed Temple E (some of the temples of Selinunte are not attributed to certain gods and have no proper names).
Temple F.
Possibly dedicated to Dionysos or Athena between 550 and 520 BCE, the Doric temple measured 65.7 x 27.4 meters with a 6 x 14 arrangement of columns, each 9.11 meters high.
The oldest and smallest of the three on the East Hill, it has been also the most severely spoliated.
Temple E.
Probably dedicated to Hera, 480-460 BCE, the Doric style temple measures approximately 70 x 27.5 meters and has six columns on each façade and 15 along the sides, each 10.2 meters high. Unusually, parts of the inner cella survive.
It is the most recent of the three temples on the East Hill and the only one to be re-erected.
"Its current appearance is the result of anastylosis (reconstruction using the original material) carried out – controversially – between 1956 and 1959.
Temple E was dedicated to Hera as shown by the inscription on a votive stela, but some scholars deduce that it must have been dedicated to Aphrodite on the basis of structural parallels."
Selinunte, Sicily. 2018