GREEK TEMPLES AND THE DATES OP THEIR FOUNDATION. 
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Name of temple. 
Orientation 
angle. 
Stellar 
elements. 
Solar 
elements. 
Name of 
star. 
Dedication 
274° 27' 
A 
Amplitude of star + 1° 14' E. 
- 4'’27'E. 
Spica, 
unknown 
or sun 
rising 
B 
Corresponding alti- 5° 20' 
4° 42' 
tude 
C 
Declination . . . +4° 17' 
- 0° 36' 
D 
Hoiir angles . . . 5'' 46“ 
6 ’'i 49™ 
E 
Depression of sun 
10 ’ 
wdien star heliacal 
F 
R. A. 11>‘ 3“ 
12 '* 6 ™ 
G 
Approximate date . 780 b.c., 
1 
Sept. 23 
The ancient Asclepieium. —There are remains of two temples very near each other 
in the same precinct. The foundations only remain. Those of the later temple are 
insufficient to supply tlie angle, but it was probably parallel to the adjacent stoa— 
if so the angle was 263° 33', and the axis of the temple would have followed the 
precessional change of a Arietis at a date of about 140 years later than the other, 
wdiich would agree w^lth the architecture of the stoa. 
Name of temple. 
Orientation 
angle. 
Stellar 
elements. 
Solar 
elements. 
Name of 
star. 
Ancient temple 
264° 27' 
A 
Amplitude of star 
+ 9° 24' E. 
+ .5° 33 E. 
a Arietis, 
of Esculapius. 
or sun 
rising 
B 
Corresponding alti- 
4° 
3° 25' 
tude 
C 
Declination . 
+ 9° 52' 
+ 6 ° 28' 
D 
Hour angles . 
6 " 10 ™ 
71 . Igm 
E 
Depression of sun 
11 
when star heliacal 
P 
R. A. 
23'* 52™ 
O’* 59™ 
G 
Approximate date . 
560 B.C., 
Apr. 5 
If the sun’s depression had been 12°, the derived date would be 720 r.c. 
On revisiting the Heraeum of Argos, I was enabled to measure the orientation of 
the older temple from the foundations of the actual cella wmll, and found that the 
angle differed only slightly from what I had deduced for it in 1893 (see p. 833 of the 
former paper). 
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