Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Paestum [site]

Preferred Title: 
Paestum [site]
Image View: 
The Temple of Neptune, View down the south peristyle, looking east
Creator: 
unknown (Greek (ancient))
Location: 
site: Pesto, Campania, Italy
Date: 
6th-5th century BCE (inclusive)
Cultural Context: 
Greek (ancient)
Style Period: 
Archaic (Greek)
Work Type 1: 
excavation (site)
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
tufa (originally covered with stucco and painted)
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Description: 
Ancient city was established by Greek colonists from Sybaris, who called it Poseidonia; taken by Lucanians 5th cen. BCE & by Romans 273 BCE; was famous for its roses; was destroyed by Saracens 871 AD; now site of the village of Pesto. (Source: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Notes) [website]; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/)
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier: 
1A3-G-P-P-E2
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.