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Foot fragment of a colossal statue at Bassae. British Museum ^[1]

Bassae (Latin) or Bassai, Vassai or Vasses (Greek, Modern: Βασσές, Ancient: Βασσαί) is an archaeological site at the southeastern end of the Ilia Prefecture that was a part of Arcadia in ancient times, south of Andritsaina, west of Megalopolis and east of Figaleia. It is famous for the well-preserved mid-5th century BC temple of Apollo Epikourios (helper). Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Temple of Apollo at Bassae, built around 420 BC is a Doric style temple that faces up-down, unlike most other temples that face left-right. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1203x740, 187 KB) Hellenistic foot fragment at the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1203x740, 187 KB) Hellenistic foot fragment at the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. ... For other uses of the word Ilia, see Ilia (disambiguation). ... Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ... Andritsaina (Greek: Ανδρίτσαινα), also Andritsena is a community and a municipality located in the southeastern part of the Ilia Prefecture in the middle of a highway, officially and unofficially GR-76 between Krestena and Megalopoli. ... Megalopolis (Greek: large city, great city) can mean: The town of Megalópoli (Μεγαλοπολη), Megalopolis, Greece. ... Figaleia (Φιγαλεία) is a municipality in the Elis Prefecture, Greece. ... The Temple of Apollo at Bassae, built around 420 BC is a Doric style temple that faces up-down, unlike most other temples that face left-right. ...

The magnificent temple of Apollo Epikourios sits at 1,150 m above sea level. The writer Pausanias placed its construction between 450 and 420 BC. The temple featured Corinthian and Ionian columns, combined with Doric columns. The columns were lined in 15 by 6 rows totalling 38 rows and the temple faced almost directly north. The middle of the temple featured a pro-naos at the top and the opisthodomos at the bottom. The architect was Iktinos, architect of Parthenon. Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros, was the archer-god of medicine and healing and also a bringer of death-dealing plague; as... Pausanias (Greek: ) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ... Iktinos (also Iktious or Ictinus) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC, who, together with Kallikrates designed the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in Athens, Greece. ... // The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ...

Fragment of a metope, depicting an Amazon. British Museum ^[2].

The site was excavated in 1836 by the Russian scholars under Carlo Brullo. Perhaps the most striking discovery was the oldest Corinthian capital yet found. Some part of the artifacts are on display at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Today the temple's Metopes are in the British Museum, next to Elgin Marbles. Bassae was the first Greek site to be inscribed on the World Heritage List (1986). The temple of Apollo is presently covered in white tent with five rows in order to protect the ruins from rain and snow. A reconstruction of the temple may be seen inside the tent. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1587x926, 1290 KB) Metope fragment from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1587x926, 1290 KB) Metope fragment from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. ... October 2, Charles Darwin returns from his voyage around the world. ... Karl Pavlovich Briullov, called by his friends the Great Karl (December 12, 1799, St Petersburg - June 11, 1852, Rome), was the first Russian painter of international standing. ... Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev (1847-1913) The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in the Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... In classical architecture, a metope is the rectangular blank spaces on the surface between two triglyphs on a Doric frieze which were often decorated with carvings. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... --88. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...

Notes

1. ↑  "The Colossal figure. Fragments of an over life-size marble statue were found in the rear space of the main room. The form of the sandals and the manner in which the hands and feet were added onto the figure indicate a Hellenistic date, perhaps 150-100 BCE. The way that the feet were divided into sections suggests that the figure was draped, or at least partially draped, with the left foot set further beyond the fall of the material than the right, while the struts between the fingers on the left hand indicate that it held something, perhaps a bow or a laurel branch, if the figure was, as seems likely, Apollo" British Museum notice.
2. ↑  "Fragments of the metopes were found at both ends of the temple. They come from a Doric frieze of triglyphs and metopes over the two porches within the colonnade. The subject matter of the twelve metopes is uncertain. Among the many smaller fragments there are glimpses of women dancing or moving rapidly, a seated old man and other male figures." This fragment is a "Head of an Amazon". British Museum notice.

External link

• Excavation of the Temple