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Le principal sanctuaire d'Artemis de Delos est associe a celui d'Apollon. Th. Homolle y entreprit des fouilles en 1878 mettant au jour deux temples imbriques, un autel, un portique coude et un ensemble de sculptures archaiques comprenant plusieurs kores. Ses travaux furent poursuivis par F. Courby, qui comprit que le temple archaique etait conserve dans le temple hellenistique, et par R. Vallois, qui fut le premier a definir les limites de l'Artemision et a en ecarter l'edifice dans lequel fut par la suite reconnu le Pythion. Il decouvrit dans le pronaos du temple hellenistique un mobilier exceptionnel date entre l'epoque mycenienne et la seconde moitie du VIIIe s. Les grandes etapes de cette exploration de l'Artemision, qui s'est poursuivie jusqu'a nos jours, sont retracees dans la premiere partie de l'ouvrage, qui contient aussi le corpus des testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques relatifs au sanctuaire et une presentation de toutes ses composantes. La seconde partie est consacree au temple hellenistique. Elle commence par une description des fondations et de l'euthynteria conservees en place et se poursuit par celle des vestiges erratiques qui peuvent etre restitues a l'elevation. La krepis, le toichobate, les colonnes, les antes, les murs, l'entablement, les frontons et la couverture sont successivement presentes. Leur analyse fonde la restitution du monument, un edifice hexastyle prostyle ionique dont toute l'elevation etait en marbre cycladique. L'interieur du naos etait sans doute orne de colonnes engagees. La construction, qui s'est principalement deroulee entre 190 et 180, fut compliquee a la fois par l'existence de monuments jouxtant le nouveau temple et par la volonte de conserver intact, pendant la premiere phase du chantier, le naos du temple archaique, englobe dans la construction hellenistique. L'edifice s'inscrit a la fois dans la lignee des temples atheniens ioniques prostyles hexastyles et dans la koine hellenistique qui, sans etre uniforme, prend le pas au debut du IIe s. sur les specificites du style developpe par les Deliens de la fin du IVe et a la fin du IIIe s. av. J.-C. The main sanctuary of Artemis at Delos is associated with that of Apollo. In 1878, Th. Homolle undertook excavations there, unearthing two overlapping temples, an altar, an L-shaped portico and a collection of ancient sculptures including a number of korai. Homolle's work was carried on by F. Courby, who understood that the ancient temple was preserved within the Hellenistic temple, and by R. Vallois, who was the first to outline the boundaries of the Artemision, and to rule out the edifice which was later identified as the Pythion. R. Vallois also discovered exceptional material that dates from between the Mycenian era and the second half of the 8th century in the Hellenistic Temple's Pronaos. This book describes the main phases of the exploration of the Artemision, which continues today, and also contains the corpus of the literary and epigraphic testimonia related to the sanctuary, as well as a presentation of all of its components. The second part is devoted to the Hellenistic Temple. It begins with a description of the foundations and the euthynteria that remain in place, and goes on to describe the various remains that can be attributed to the elevation. The crepidoma, the toichobate, the columns, the antae, the walls, the entablature, the pediments and the roof are all presented one after the other. Their analysis forms the basis for the restitution of the monument, a hexastyle, prostyle, ionic edifice that was built in Cycladic marble. The interior of the naos was most likely decorated with engaged columns. The construction process, which took place mainly between 190 and 180 BC, was hampered by the monuments that adjoined the new temple and by the attempts, during the first phase of the construction process, to preserve the naos of the ancient temple, incorporated into the Hellenistic building. The edifice is very much in line with the Athenian ionic, prostyle, hexastyle temples and the koine Hellenistic style that emerged at the start of the 2nd century, and to a certain extent, took over from the specific style developed by the Delians that emerged at the end of the 4th and went on until the end of the 3rd century BC.

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