Sicyonian Treasury

The columns were monolithic, i.e. they consisted of single blocks of limestone, and measured 2.78 meters in height; they supported the roof directly, without any intervening walls.

The discovery of these sculptures buried under the Treasury of the late sixth century helped scholars date the monopteros to ca.

The building looked more like a shelter and thus it led to the conjecture that it hosted a precious and fragile ex-voto, possibly the chariot with which Cleisthenes won at the first Pythian Games of 582 BC.

They are inspired by mythology: the journey of Phrixus and Helle, the Argonauts' expedition, the abduction of Europa by Zeus, the Dioskouroi, the hunt of the Calydonian boar.

Historians believe that it was constructed by the demos of Sicyon when the Orthagorids were forced to demise, in order to mark the change in Sicyonian politics.