The Date of the Temple on the Ilissos River

PT HE SMALL IONIC TEMPLE which once stood near the banks of the Ilissos .4 River, almost a twin of the Temple of Athena Nike, is preserved only in the drawings of Stuart and Revett.1 The foundations have been excavated, but the superstructure is now lost, except for a few slabs of the sculptured frieze.2 These were identified and studied by F. Studniczka, who dated the frieze and thereby the temple to ca. 450-448 B.C.3 This dating of the temple has been generally accepted, though there has been much debate over the stylistic date of the frieze.4 In this study, a fresh examina-