THE SANCTUARY OF APOLLO HYLATES

THE MONUMENTS OF THE SANCTUARY

ARCHAIC PERIOD (8th  - 7th B.C.)

Since this period fragments of the Archaic precinct and the Archaic circular altar are noticeable.

HELLENISTIC PERIOD 

In the late 4th and 3rd century, the first attempt to apply an architectural style with an influence from the Classic and Hellenistic Architecture has been observed as in Amathus. The eastern building of the Hellenistic Porticoes (stoa) was erected then (4th / 3rd B.C.) and behind it a house, the East Complex.

ROMAN PERIOD

The biggest constructive activity of the Sanctuary was observed in the first and second century with the erection of the Temple (small four-column porticoes temple with a cella and a vestibule with depictions. It is consolidated on a scaled groundwork. The non-fluted calcareous columns have brought the columns of a nabataean style known also as Cypro-Corinthian), the Circled Monument, which is interpreted as a place of tree worship, the Sacred Street, the south-eastern construction (exercise ground = palaestra), the north-western construction and in the second phase under the reign of Trajan, the Baths and the South Porticoes.  

 

 

The Sanctuary was destroyed by a big earthquake after the mid 4th century .A.D. and was abandoned.



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