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A Visit to SAMOTHRACE |
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(1992) |
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Approach to the island, with the foothills of Mt. Fengari; the sanctuary is in a ravine at the left. |
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View of the sanctuary area from n. to s. | The Temple (Hieron) where the Greater Mysteries were performed. (view to the north) | |||
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The Hieron: in the foreground, The Altar Court. | To the w. (left) of the Hieron, the Hall of Votive Gifts | |||
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The Altar Court, on the west side of the Hieron | The Room, above and behind the Hieron, where the Winged Victory of Samothrace was found. | |||
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The western stoa, above the Theater, early III B.C. | The circular area near the Ptolemaion |
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The Tholos (Arsinoeion) |
Architectural elements of the Tholos reconstructed in the museum. |
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Tholos |
The Sacred Rock a natural outcropping of blue-green stone where offerings were made | |||
The Tholos, dedicated in 289/81 B.C. by Queen Arsinoe of Egypt,
more than 20m in diameter, was the largest circular building--
though not the earliest--in Greek architecture.
This visit, in conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Ancient Thrace (held in Komotini Greece, October 1992), was made possible in part by generous assistance from the School of the Humanities and Dean Jorge García, and my colleagues in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
John Paul Adams, CSUN
john.p.adams@csun.edu