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AT the recent annual meeting of the subscribers to the British School of Archæology in Athens, reference was made in the usual review of the School's work to the votive house, or temple, models which had been discovered in the course of the excavation of the Heraeum at Perachora, near Corinth. From incomplete fragments a complete model has been reconstructed, which is now on view in the British Museum. The model is about a foot in height, and gives for the first time an idea in detail of the character of the house in the Ægean during the Geometric period. The models are dated at about the middle of the eighth century B.C. The most striking feature of the construction is the apse, which Sir Arthur Evans has suggested may have arisen from the earliest form of building, in which the back wall was formed by hollowing out a cliff-face. The door of the building has antae with columns, and above it are three small windows.
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Archæological Exhibitions at the British Museum. Nature 133, 323 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133323a0
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