Hekatompedon Temple

The Hekatompedon or Hekatompedos was an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens built from limestone in the Archaic period [1]. The name of the temple, "Hekatompedon", was found in inscriptions and is translated as “one hundred feet long” [1]. The existence of the Hekatompedon is witnessed by historical documents [1]. Its foundations have disappeared, but architectural and sculptural elements found in the southern part of the Mycenaean wall of Acropolis of Athens have been assigned by scholars to this early temple [1]. The pediments were colourfully painted and their porous limestone has allowed the ancient paint to survive well [1]. One of the pediments (likely the West pediment) contained two lionesses tearing apart a bull in the centre [1]. On the left Herakles fights against Triton and on the right he fights with the Three-bodied (Triple-bodied) Daemon with the symbols of the three elements of nature in his hands [1].