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  • Cyprus, Pólis
  • geo:35.037395,32.424809

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Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Marion, Goddess` Temple

data access 33038

The Archaic temple of the sanctuary of "the Goddess" of the seventh and sixth centuries; destroyed around 500 BC. "In the temple were unearthed the remains of a colossal archaic terracotta statue, which was originally about 3 m high.

Sources:

  1. William P. Childs: The Iron Age kingdom of Marion. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Band 308, 1997, pp. 37–48.
  2. Nancy Serwint: The Terracotta statue from ancient Marion. In Acta Cypriotica. Band 3, 1992, pp. 382–426.
  3. http://www.princeton.edu/~visres/rp/popPAEPCC.html

Relevant museums

  • Cyprus Museum in Nicosia
    Lefkosia. Archeological museum
    Cyprus, Nicosia
  • Paris, Louvre
    Paris, Louvre
    France, Paris
  • The British Museum
    The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Holborn

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-01-07) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/33038
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta (2017) Marion, Goddess` Temple. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/33038, accessed 2026-11-14.