Hekatompedon Temple

The Hekatompedon (meaning 'hundred feet long') was an Archaic Doric temple on the Athenian Acropolis, built c. 570-550 BC from porous stone with white marble dust coating. The temple was dedicated to Athena and enlarged under Pisistratus with an exterior colonnade featuring marble friezes and metopes. Demolished in 490 BC after the Battle of Marathon to make way for the Old Parthenon, its pediment sculptures depicting Heracles wrestling Triton and the Three-Bodied Daemon survive in the Acropolis Museum.