Hekatompedon horse bookend set - cream

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CODE 1934

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PRICE 30,00€

A set of two cream colored enamel bookends inspired by a surviving architectural decoration of the temple known as the Hekatompedon. The Hekatompedon or the archaic Parthenon is the temple thought to have previously existed on the site that you now see the classical Parthenon. A charming bookend for the library or shelf of an adult or child. It comes with a gift box and is also available with an inox finish.

Material: Aluminum coloured with electrostatic paint

Designer: Costas Dimopoulos

Parts: 2 items

Dimensions: 7 x 18 x 8 cm

Colour: Crème

The Hekatompedon was the first temple of monumental size built on the Acropolis. It was built around 570 BC. Although the temple’s foundations no longer exist, its existence is attested to by the architectural members and large sculptures found in archaeological excavations. Four small horses carved in three-dimensional form from a metope are one of those surviving architectural elements. Originally, the horses were presented, drawing a carriage known as a quadriga. The carriage and driver would have been painted or sculpted in low relief on the metope's rear wall, now lost to us, behind the sculpted horses.

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