L'architettura, in M. Livadiotti, M.A. Rizzo, M. Filimonos-Tsopotou (a cura di), Athanaiai dekatan. Il santuario di Athana Polias sull'acropoli di Ialysos,

The Italian investigations of the sanctuary of Athana Polias on the acropolis of Ialysos (Mount Philerimos, Rhodes) was carried out between 1913 and 1928, discovering a temple with its votive deposit, which attested that the cult started as early as the 8th cent. BC. The cella of the Hellenistic temple encloses a stone platform that constitutes a previous worship place, dated after the Late Geometric period, according to the ceramics found by Amedeo Maiuri underneath. Besides, several terracotta antefixes with gorgoneia, found in the votive deposit, can be interpreted as the remains of a roof built for a building erected in a later period, maybe to shelter the cult statue. In fact, these materials are datable to the first quarter of the 5th cent. BC and were probably products of a Rhodian workshop. Having no relationship with the Hellenistic temple, they testify the existence of an ancient predecessor. The current Monograph presents a possible reconstruction of the late-Archaic building they belonged to; besides, it updates the reconstruction hypothesis of the Hellenistic one, dated to the 3rd cent. BC, is illustrated. The more recent temple is coherent with the sacred architecture of Rhodes during the late Classical and Hellenistic periods, characterized by small buildings, preferably with prostyle or in antis front, with a marked trend, common in the period, to mix features of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders and to enrich the design of the inner rooms maintaining sober exterior fronts. The description of the phases includes the later ones, when on the same site of the ancient temple a proto-Christian basilica was built, followed by a Medieval church with a monastery.