Glinado
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Glinado (Γλινάδο) is a community on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Greece. Its population averages at 720 but increases in the summer months. Glinado's inhabitants mainly subside of farming in the fertile plain below the village, known as Leivadia, but have also ventured into hospitality services given its picturesque location sprawled out on a hill top 8 kilometres from the Island's capital Chora. It belongs to the municipality of Naxos.
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The temple was located on a marsh, about three kilometers from the actual city. After the excavations made on site, it was revealed that there were, not one, but five temples, overlapped at least since the 9th century B.C.
The first temple consisted in a simple square building, measuring 5 per 10 meters, with an entrance to the Southeast. There were three wood columns in the interior of the building, supporting the wooden structure that was covered by mud bricks. The whole structure was built on mud bricks, covering a wood structure. In the middle of the building there was an eschara, an altar of Mycenaean characteristics, which makes us think that the worship could be older than this first known building.
The second occupation phase dates from the middle of the 8th century B.C. This building is similar, in appearance, to the first building. The area occupied is larger, about 11 per 15 meters, and the interior has 3 lines of columns, each line containing five columns, all with marble bases. The eschara wasn't moved but interior benches, that ran along the walls, were added.
In the beginning of the 7th century B.C. we find a new building, with considerable development from the anterior phases. This temple will partially use the exterior walls of the building of the second phase, but it will be longer, 11 per 17 meters. There are two lines of columns in the interior, with three columns each. The bases are still in marble and the space in the middle of the temple is more important. The exterior entrance has now a peristyle, one of the first known in the ancient greek world, decorated with a terracotta frise. The roof would have marble pipes for water draining and the eschara, in the interior, would have a lantern on top.
The forth phase of the building, in the middle of the 6th century B.C., would consist on a building that covered completely the other temples, with an area of 13 per 25 meters. The longitudinal and back walls are now in granite and the roofing system is in wood. The rest of the building is in marble: the prostasis, with Ionian columns; the front wall, with cycladic doors; the interior columns and the roof tiles.
The final phase of occupation is a church, built on the 5th century A.D.
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