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Stoa Poecile (Athens, Greece)

LC control no.sh 99013634
LC classificationDF287.S75
Corporate name headingStoa Poecile (Athens, Greece)
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Variant(s)Poecile, Stoa (Athens, Greece)
Poikile, Stoa (Athens, Greece)
Stoa Poikile (Athens, Greece)
See alsoStoas--Greece
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Found inWork cat.: 98171190: Cruciani, Claudia. Modelli del moderato : la Stoà€ Poikile e l'Hephaisteion di Atena nel programma edilizio cimoniano, 1998.
Oxford class. dict. 3d ed.: p. 1445 (Stoa Poecile ("painted"). Known from over 50 literary testimonia, and excavated from 1981, it lies in the NE part of the Athenian Agora ... It dates from c475-450 B.C, part of the Cimonian improvements of the area. The name "Poecile" derived from the panel paintings it housed.)