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The temple of Artemis

The temple of Ikarian Artemis (Diana) was discovered in 1983 by the Greek archaeologist Leontas Politis. In that region a building of dimensions 10 x 4 was found that had been built on a huge armoured base necessary as the ground of the region was unstable. Only ten metres far from that particular area a second smaller building which probably accommodated the statue of Artemis, was found.

Among other objects, there were found a well-processed crater from Rhodes that depicts a chamois, a pin with a lion’s head on it, a beautiful head of statue of the Hellenistic era, as well as two bodies of feminine statues, one of the 5th century B.C. and the other of the 2nd century B.C.