Older Propylaea

wall · 2000 AD – 2099 AD

A gateway at the western end of the Acropolis of Athens, which replaced the Mycenaean gateway in the 480s BC and was destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480 BC, while still under construction. It might have been rebuilt in the 460s BC, but was replaced by the Mnasiklean Propylaea from 437 BC.

Coordinates

37.97174, 23.72510

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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