Southwest Temple

These fragments originally belonged to several Hellenistic structures and a fifth-century BC stoa at Thorikos in southeastern Attica, but they were spoliated to build the temple in the Agora in the age of Augustus.

[2] The foundations consisted of conglomerate blocks on top of a broken stone packing that was held together with low-quality lime mortar.

They are poorly preserved; blocks remained in situ at the southwest corner only, but traces of cuttings indicate where the other walls were located.

[1][2] The orientation of the structure indicates that it post-dated the Odeon, which was built around 15 BC, and use of mortar in the foundations suggests an early Imperial date.

Mason's marks carved on the blocks to facilitate reassembly of the fragments use letter forms which are characteristic of the same time period.

[6] The columns come from an unfinished double stoa, built at Thorikos in southeastern Attica in the late fifth century BC.

[13] Other fragments were newly made in the Roman period[14] As reconstructed by William Dinsmoor Jr., the front of the temple consisted of four Doric columns with a diameter of 1.001 metres at the base and a height of 5.619 metres, arranged in prostyle (i.e. so that the outer two columns were directly in frant of the side walls).

Thompson suggested that it might have been dedicated to the Imperial cult, because a statue base for Livia as Artemis Boulaea and mother of Tiberius (Agora XVIII no.