PSI - Issue 79

Vrouva Antigone et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 79 (2026) 161–167

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er investigatio kind of a diaph connectors, an without bein cm in the peri preservation s has not reach arthquakes tha e with extensi e on the under ng were comp rely fractured original posi emple include a roof structure spite alteration building was l anized efforts

on is the marb hragm (see Fig nd the coffers g attached to istyle and 60c state hed modern t at stroked it an ve repairs and r consideratio pletely destroy and all the re ition, though ed only the m e until today ( ns reached the left in ruins. T to preserve an

ble coffered r g. 2). It shoul are doweled them, thus the m in the prost

roof bridging d be noted tha to the beams. ey can freely tasis (Opistho

the two coll at the beams a The beams th slide on the st odomos).

onades of pte are connected hemselves rest tructure. The p

eron and pros d to each other t on the entab provided seat

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History and p

both f 17th e first clined . The beams f was pteron er 26 th 1805

T natu centu exten roof coffe surv prov rema T 1687 until

The structure ural like the ea ury, alongside nsive damage f and the tilin fers were sever vived in their vided for the t ains without a The temple des 7, where the b l the first orga

imes intact si nd man impos d functional re n area the we yed. The hori emnants should fractured. Th ain cella and t (Skaris K., An e 17 th century The state of pr nd restore buil

ince the mon sed as the fire enovations in est pteron roo izontal marble d have been d he repairs of J the pteron wa ndrikou D. (20 as a whole un reservation of ldings on the A

nument has un e of the 3rd ce its long cours f. Both the w e coffered ro demolished for Julian (362-3 as left unroofe 025)). ntil the devast f the west pter Acropolis beg

ndergone vari entury and the e. The fire of wooden part of ofs suffered g r safety reason 65 AD) wher ed. Since the f ating blast of on little had c gan in 1975 (s

ious disasters e explosion of f 267 AD is the f the outer inc great damage ns. Only the b re a new roof fire the west p the Septembe changed from see Fig. 3).

Fig. 3. (a) Afte 1778-1832) and 1.34.(adapted from the first b

er 1805. West Por Filippo Maria G m Skaris K. Andr beam from the nor

rtico of the Parthe iuntotardi (Italian rikou D. (2025)); rth. Drawing by M

enon, Athens, Ed n, 1768-1831) Wa ; (b) Survey of th M. Korres in Kor

dward Dodwell (E atercolor The Pac e west pteron bea rres M., Bouras C

English, 1777 or ckard Humanities ams and reconstru Ch., (1983).

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