Stoa of Attalus
The Stoa of Attalos (also in Latin form Attalus is) one to museum purposes reconstructed Hellenistic Wandelhalle on the Athenian Agora .
King Attalus II of Pergamon had the original building in the 2nd century BC. Build. The dimensions of the stoa, made of Pentelic marble and limestone, are 115 × 20 meters. The outer colonnade on the first floor consists of Doric columns, the inner one of Ionic columns, a combination common for this type of building. The upper floor shows Ionic columns on the outside and Pergamene columns on the inside. The building is very similar to the stoa that Attalus' brother and predecessor, Eumenes II , had built on the southern slope of the Acropolis .
The stoa was destroyed by the Heruli in 267. Their ruins became part of a fortress wall. Between 1952 and 1956 the building was reconstructed by the New York architecture firm W. Stuart Thompson & Phelps Barnum under the guidance of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens , with a significant financial contribution from John D. Rockefellers, Jr. Located in the Stoa has since become a museum that presents the finds from the American excavations from the Agora.
The signing of the accession treaty for the enlargement of the EU by ten countries ( Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Poland , Slovakia , Slovenia , the Czech Republic , Hungary , Cyprus ) took place in the Stoa of Attalos on April 16, 2003 .
literature
- Friedrich Adler : The Stoa of King Attalus II at Athens. In: Journal of Construction. Volume 25, 1875, pp. 18–50 ( PDF , outdated).
- Homer A. Thompson , Alison Frantz: The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (= Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture Book 2). American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 1959, 2nd edition 1992 ( PDF ).
- Hans-Joachim Schalles : The Hellenistic transformation of the Athens agora in the 2nd century BC. In: Hephaestus . Volume 4, 1982, pp. 97-116.
Web links
- American School at Athens guide to the Agora with extensive information on the Stoa of Attalus
- Ministry of Culture: The Museum
Coordinates: 37 ° 58 ′ 30 ″ N , 23 ° 43 ′ 27 ″ E