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Theokoleon, Olympia

Description

Theokoleon was one of the buildings in Olympia, Greece, and the seat of "theokoloi", the priests. It also housed the sanctuary staff, which included soothsayers, interpreters, bearers of sacrificial animals, musicians and a woodmonger who provided the wood used in sacrifices.

It was a square-shaped building with originally eight rooms around a central court. The rooms were probably quarters for the priests (along with the Prytaneion), and had barriers but no doors.^[1] Additional rooms were built later on.

Dimensions

The total original area was eighteen meters square. The Theokoleon Building was originally 6.7 m square, though more rooms were added to the east side in the Hellenistic period, and a new wing consisting of many more rooms and another peristyle court were built in Roman times.^[2]

Location

The Theokoleon is located in Olympia, the small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It was built west of Altis outside the sacred enclosure, and north of the workshop of Phidias.

[1] "Olympia, Theokoleon (Building)".

[2] "Monuments. By Odysseus.culture.gr".

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