Frieze from the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis [2]
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Frieze from the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis [2]
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Published 2018-02-01T17:58:41+00:00
Marble relief from the South Frieze of the Temple of Athena-Nike: Greeks fighting Persians, perhaps the Battle of Marathon, 490 BC.
The little temple of Athena Nike was built on the site of an earlier shrine. Unlike the Parthenon it used the more slender proportions of the Ionic order of architecture. It has a dramatic high position looking westwards from the edge of the Athenian Acropolis, next to the entrance.
The external frieze is made up of a series of battle scenes involving the Greeks and their enemies. Like much of the temple, the friezes had been dismantled and reused to build fortifications in late medieval times.
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| Date published | 01/02/2018 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Medium |
| Title | Frieze from the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis [2] |
| Date | ca. 490 BC |
| Dimension | H: 44,45 cm; L: 1,79 m |
| Accession | 1816,0610.158 |
| Period | Attic |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | British Museum |
| Record | http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=104086001&objectId=399266&partId=1 |
| Place | British Museum |
