Exhibit Codex
The Parthenon
Explore the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. Inspect the surviving colonnades, stepped platform and inner remains in a textured photogrammetric study.
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Athens · the surviving temple
Reference and coverage
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from an Acropolis drone-video scan and partitioned into inspection regions. Display cuts are not original construction joints. The scan has gaps and texture artifacts; vanished roofs, ancient decoration and a complete interior are not reconstructed.
Available layers
- Platform
- Colonnades
- Inner remains
Structure index
Named structures in this reference. Open the interactive Codex for additional study views and selectable records.
Cella & inner remains
Inner remains
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Platform & lower steps
Platform
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade A · bay 5
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
End colonnade B
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade B · bay 3
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade B · bay 2
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
End colonnade A
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade A · bay 1
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade A · bay 2
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade B · bay 1
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade B · bay 4
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade B · bay 5
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade B · bay 6
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade A · bay 3
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade A · bay 4
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Long colonnade A · bay 6
Colonnades
Inspect this region of the surviving Parthenon. The selected surface comes from a drone-video photogrammetric reconstruction.
Nick G. Gizelis (aumakua), Parthenon – Acropolis, Athens Greece, CC BY 4.0. Temple extracted from the Acropolis scene, reoriented and partitioned into spatial inspection regions. Seams are display cuts, not original construction joints. Scan has holes and texture artifacts; it does not reconstruct the ancient roof or interior decoration.
Exhibit guide
History
The Parthenon was built on the Athenian Acropolis between 447 and 432 BCE, in the building programme associated with Perikles. It housed the monumental image of Athena Parthenos made under Pheidias. The surviving building has also served as a church and a mosque; war, removal of sculpture and restoration have altered it.
Plan & construction
Eight columns stand across each short end and seventeen along each long side. The outer colonnade surrounds the inner rooms on a stepped platform. Doric columns and metopes are combined with an Ionic frieze. The platform and columns incorporate subtle adjustments rather than a perfectly straight, repetitive grid.
Sculpture & worship
The pediments represented Athena’s birth and her contest with Poseidon. The frieze shows a procession and seated gods. Architecture, sculpture and the statue formed a setting for civic and religious life; the present ruins preserve only part of that setting.
Conservation
Modern conservation documents surviving blocks, corrects damaging earlier interventions and uses new material where needed for structural restoration. The scan records a particular appearance of the ruins; it is not a reconstruction of the temple in 432 BCE.
Read the detailed records
Open the full exhibit Codex for individual structure records and time-specific information. The Credits page lists source creators, licenses and adaptations.