Rhypes

Rhypes ( Greek Ῥύπες ) was an ancient Greek city on the Gulf of Corinth .

Covered temple in ancient Rhypes (Egialia)

Temple of Rhypes (c. 530 BC) - In the foreground the remains of the ramp that leads to the temple

The location of the ancient city of Rhypes is still considered uncertain. It was probably located on the Trapeza Aigion (neugr. Τραπεζά Αιγίου), a steep table mountain, an almost predestined acropolis, in the middle of the steep vineyards on the Gulf of Corinth.

The Trapeza rises very steeply all around (highest elevation: ~ 451 m) and only has a saddle to the southwest that tapers flat to the adjacent higher mountains. Remnants of ancient walls are visible over the entire area of the Trapeza and massive protective walls can be seen in some places along the steep drop. If you calculate this area, you get an urban area of approximately 272,000 m ² .

Based on these ancient remains, an identification with the ancient place Rhypes was made by Jean A. Lebègue (1871), Friedrich von Duhn (1877), Alexandros Alexandropoulos (Ἀλέξανδρος Γ. Ἀλεξανδρόπουλος; 1920), Ernst Meyer (1939) and most recently Dietram Müller ( 1987). On the basis of the map drawn by Meyer in a G. Buechli and the photo of a fluted column drum, the position of which the then Ephoros of the administration of antiquities, Ioannis Papapostolou (Ιωάννις Παπαποστόλου), depicted in the photo in 1972 by Andreas G. Vordos (Aνδέας) . Βόρδος) 1996 the remains of a temple are identified. Through antefixes from surface finds in the inner temple area, the building was provisionally started in the last decades of the 6th century BC. Dated.

The site has been under protection by the Greek Ministry of Culture since 2000. In 2003, in a first stage, 13,000 m ^{2 were} expropriated for an archaeological site, another 47,000 m ² are to follow in the future. In order to protect the temple remains from the extreme temperature fluctuations caused by direct sunlight, night frost and driving rain, a trapezoidal sheet metal roof with an area of 800 m ^{2 was} built from steel without internal supports. This protective roof is the third largest freely spanned Greece after the one over the Bassai ( Peloponnese ) and Malia (Crete).

Creation of Kroton

The community of Rhypes founded in the late 8th century BC. The city of Croton in southern Italy.

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