Category:Treasuries of Olympia
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Location | Ancient Olympia Municipality, Elis Regional Unit, West Greece Region, Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece | ||||
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English: The "treasuries" are all in a single row on the lower flank of Kronion just below the aqueduct, which had to be shored up by steel structural members. Pausanias described 10 treasuries, but gave contradictory or incomplete information about the names and locations in the row of some of them. A few were already abandoned by cities that no longer existed in his time. The excavators discovered 12 foundations, which were numbered I–XII by Dőrpfeld. More recently the Ministry of Culture renumbered the structures on the terrace to A-N, including the previously unmentioned small square foundation behind the east wing of the Nymphaion. At least one turned out not to be a treasury. The term "treasury" (thesauros) is ancient and legacy, and seems to have meant a small temple dedicated to the god by a specific community, used as a secure and authoritative place to store communal sacred objects, such as gifts to the god in precious metal, the exact usage being variable and to a large degree ad hoc.
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Media in category "Treasuries of Olympia"
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Accés a l'estadi d'Olímpia.JPG 3,664 × 2,748; 2.72 MB
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Ancient Olympia, Greece41.jpg 1,024 × 768; 385 KB
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Grece Olympie Stade Ligne Depart - panoramio.jpg 3,296 × 2,160; 582 KB
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Mont Croni (Kronion), Olímpia.JPG 3,664 × 2,748; 2.45 MB
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OlympicRaceTrackOlympia.JPG 1,632 × 1,224; 899 KB
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Plan Olympia sanctuary-uk.svg 2,500 × 1,580; 748 KB
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Top down aerial of Ancient Olympia in Greece (51224134415).jpg 5,336 × 3,555; 17.08 MB
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Top down aerial of the archaeological site of Olympia, Greece (51222351617).jpg 5,464 × 3,640; 18.48 MB
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Treasures of Olympia 01.jpg 4,032 × 3,024; 7.67 MB
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Treasures of Olympia 02.jpg 8,220 × 3,858; 17.92 MB
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Treasures of Olympia 03.jpg 4,032 × 3,024; 7.29 MB
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View of Kronion Hill from the Stadium of Olympia on October 14, 2020.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 34.85 MB