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The earlier restorations of the north colonnade of the Parthenon were responsible for serious structural damage and had also harmed the monument aesthetically. The situation was so crucial that it had to be confronted in its entirety, in the light of the theoretical principles and intervention methods of the ESMA.
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 The restoration of the north colonnade of the temple is the most extensive of the Parthenon restoration programmes, for it involves the structural restoration of eight columns (from the 4th to the 11th from the east) and the corresponding parts of the entablature above. Work began in October 2001. |
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The approved study (initial study by K. Zambas, definitive study and implementation study by L. Lambrinou and R. Christodoulopoulou) stipulated the dismantling of the eight columns and the entablature blocks, the replacement of the concrete supplements of the previous intervention with supplements of new marble, the resetting in the monument of all identifiable ancient pieces, the replacement of existing clamps and dowels with corresponding ones of titanium and the anastelosis of the architectural members in their original positions so as to correct the earlier misplacements and transpositions. The structural restoration of the architectural members is being carried out on the basis of the relevant studies by the civil engineer M. Mentzini, and also by the engineers Ch. Kyparissi, E.E. Toumbakari and A. Vrouva. Much of this work has now been finished and the project is continuing at a good pace. In 2007 the programme was expanded to include the dismantling of the 7 ancient metopes that were still in situ and the conservation - restoration of the members of the west part of the entablature of the north peristyle (study by P. Chistodoulopoulou). |
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 Completion of the intervention is expected to give the monument both structural strength and aesthetic wholeness, since the north side and the west side of the Parthenon together provide one of the most complete views of the temple, both for the visitor to the sacred rock and from most points of the city. |
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