🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Heraion of Samos
Archaic to Roman ~900 BCE–300 CE · Samian Greek (Ionian)
Polycrates' 109 m giant Ionic Heraion - largest attempted Greek temple on Samos plain.
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Tagsheraion
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇷 Greece · Hydraulic works
Archaic to Hellenistic · Corinthian Greek
Perachora peninsula (45 m, 38°01′48″N 22°57′00″E 38.03,22.95) Classical to Hellenistic gravity aqueduct (5.2 km) tapping Penteskouphia springs behind Acrocorinth to supply Heraion of Perachora…
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman ~900 BCE–300 CE · Samian Greek (Ionian)
Polycrates' 109 m giant Ionic Heraion - largest attempted Greek temple on Samos plain.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (600 BCE – 5th c. CE) · Samian Greek / Ionian
Verified – Samos Heraion sacred mole 480 m at 2 m off Ireon, Hera sanctuary harbour. Polycrates 530 BCE mole, Herodotus 3.60 Samian harbour wonders. Excavated Kyrieleis 1960s German.