PRASIDAKI - 2002

Prasidaki (Elliniko). The Ζ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports the discovery of an Archaic temple at the site of the early Classical doric temple excavated in 1999-2000. Built in soft limestone, the temple was peripteral (6 x 13), with a three-stepped krepis, pronaos, cella (with a double interior colonnade) and opisthodomos. The base of the cult statue is preserved. The roof had rich painted and plastic decoration. The building was probably destroyed by an earthquake and subsequent fire in the first-second century AD. The identity of the deity worshipped is indicated by a votive inscription ΑΘΑΝΑΙ ΑΓΟΡΙΟΙΣ ΑΡΙΟΥΝΤΙΑΣ ΑΝΕΘΕΚΕΝ on the lip of a bronze bowl: the epithet ΑΓΟΡΙΟΙΣ indicates that the temple was situated in the city’s agora. Settlement remains and tombs surrounded the temple.