Southwest Temple of the Ancient Agora of Athens

The Southwest Temple is the modern name for a tetrastyle prostyle Doric temple located in the southwest part of the Ancient Agora of Athens [1]. Fragments from the temple found throughout the Agora enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of the temple's appearance [1]. These fragments originally belonged to several Hellenistic structures and a fifth-century BC stoa at Thorikos in southeastern Attica, but they were spoliated to build the temple in the Agora in the age of Augustus [1]. It is unknown which god or hero the temple was dedicated to [1]. It was spoliated to build the post-Herulian fortification wall after the Herulian sack of Athens in 267 AD [1]. The structure consists of a cella without peripteral columns and a pronaos at the western end with four columns [1]. The building was about 20.50 metres long and about 10.48 metres wide [1]. Parts of the structure were detected during the 1933 and 1934 seasons, but it was only properly excavated in the 1951 season, under the supervision of Rebecca C. Wood [1].