Treasury of the Acanthians

The Treasury of the Acanthians at Delphi was built by citizens of Acanthos on the Chalcidice peninsula to commemorate their joint victory with the Lacedaemonians against Athens. Built likely after 424 BC, when Spartan general Brasidas persuaded Acanthos to defect from the Athenian alliance during the Peloponnesian War. Plutarch records that the treasury housed a statue debated as depicting either Lysander or Brasidas, and a chryselephantine (gold and ivory) trireme donated by Cyrus the Younger. In the Roman period, a gate behind the treasury led to the House of the Peristyle.