The Erechtheion, Erechtheum or Temple of Athena Polias, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Europe.
The Erechtheion, Erechtheum or Temple of Athena Polias, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Europe. The Erechtheion, Erechtheum or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena. Externally, the temple is an Ionic hexastyle, prostyle pronaos which faces east. The building is in Pentelic marble with a blue Eleusinian limestone frieze. On the south wall of the western naos was an L-shaped staircase which leads to the higher Porch of the Maidens (or Caryatid Porch, or Korai Porch), a prostyle tetrastyle porch, or pteron, having six sculpted female figures as supports, all facing south and standing on a low wall.
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Location: Athens, Greece
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