| ID: G1 |
Title: STOA' (Gallery) OF ATTALO, Athens, Greece. |
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| Period of construction: 159-138 b.c. |
| Structural type: Block structure |
Chronology of intervention:
-1950: Reconstruction by United States archeologists. |
Type of the intervention:
Reintegration of the Stoà of Attalo located to the bottom of the Acropolis.
Description of the Intervention:
-1950:
-Re-composition of fragments and successive reintegration with hand Penteli marble.
-The arcade is covered by a reinforced concrete ceiling, covered by wood to simulate the original structure.
-The intervention was supported by the United States and the workers were selected in the area.
-Technical defect: the wood covers a structure in reinforced concrete; one can foresee future corrosion of the steel reinforcement in the concrete structures.
Photos:
a The ruins (view toward South-East in 1952; b The reconstruction of Stoa' in 1959;
c reconstruction of the American school of classical studies to Athens (1953-1956);
d Stoa' of Attalo: main façade;
e Stoa' of attalo. One of the rocks of the colomn Doric of the façade;
f Stoa' di Attalo: ancient block with metopes and triglyphes;
g Stoa' of attalo: assemblage of the girder of the lower story of the façade.
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