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A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to 406 BCE to house the ancient wooden cult statue of Athena and as a shrine to various local deities including Erechtheus.
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Original image by Dennis Jarvis. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 02 December 2012 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Jarvis, D. (2012, December 02). Caryatids of the Erechtheion. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/975/caryatids-of-the-erechtheion/
Jarvis, Dennis. "Caryatids of the Erechtheion." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 02, 2012. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/975/caryatids-of-the-erechtheion/.
Jarvis, Dennis. "Caryatids of the Erechtheion." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 02 Dec 2012. Web. 16 Apr 2021.
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