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![[Piazza-Duomo-di-Siracusa]](public/luoghi/duomosir.jpg)
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Piazza-Duomo-of-Syracuse
The temple, of Doric was built in the fifth century BC The tyrant Gelone following the victory against the Carthaginians in the battle of Imera. The Athenaion was hexastyle (six columns in front) periptero (columns cell surrounded on all four sides), with 14 columns on the long sides. According to the University pediment bore the great shield of golden goddess bronze. From Cicero, which lists ornaments depretati from Verre, we know that had decorations ivory, gold studs on the door and a series of painted panels that raffiguravano a cavalry fighting between Agatocle and Carthaginians and 27 portraits of tyrants City. Currently there are visible on the left side of the cathedral, some columns and stilobate on which they rested in local limestone, while others remain (marble tiles and drip caps in the shape of a lion's head) are kept in the Regional Archaeological Museum Paolo Orsi. Inside the dome are also clearly visible 9 columns of the right side of the periptero and two in front of the cell. The temple was preceded by a place of worship dating all'VIII century BC, with an altar brought to light during the excavations the start of the twentieth century, and a temple of the first half of the sixth century BC.
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