This is second volume of the Roman Temples of Samos concerning the peripteros and naiskos which were erected in front of the big altar of Hera. These temples are part of an extensive reorganization of the sanctuary of Hera in the early Roman Imperial Period with many buildings, which follow the old sacred buildings of the archaic period and their building tradition. The peripteros and naiskos are new buildings, but they do not follow the usual building types of their period. They are singular buildings, which pick up the sacred buildings of the archaic period in a very subtle way.

Publication of the Excavation conducted by the Autor in the Year 1966 in the Early Bronze Age Settlement underneath the Sanctuary of Hera on Samos.

This volume presents the results of the excavations carried out in 1983, 1984 and 1991 in the south-eastern area of the Heraion of Samos. In addition to products of the archaic Greek handicraft among the votive offerings, especially the significant amount of imports from Western Asia and Egypt is remarkable.

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert Grabungsmaterial aus dem Heraion von Samos: Panathenäische Preisamphoren des frühen 5. Jhs. v. Chr. liefern neue Erkenntnisse zur Herstellung in Athen durch einen bisher unbekannten Maler und zur Motivation des Stifters, qualitätvolle Fragmente rotfiguriger Gefäße Informationen zum historischen Kontext.

Der Polykratische Tempel im samischen Heraion zählt zu bedeutendsten Bauten der griechischen Antike. Gottfried Gruben, der Nestor der Bauforschung, hat alle Bauteile dieses Tempels erfasst, gezeichnet und analysiert und so ein überzeugendes Bild von seiner Architektur geschaffen. Der Abschluss seiner Arbeiten wurde jedoch durch seinen frühen Tod im Jahre 2003 vereitelt. Die grundlegenden Studien Grubens wurden für den Druck von Hermann J. Kienast überarbeitet und werden im vorliegenden Band veröffentlicht.

Vessels, figurines and amulets of faience were dedicated in the great Archaic sanctuaries of East Greece. Those presented to the goddess Hera at Samos reveal the especially important contacts between Samos and the much older civilisation of Egypt: they provide a parallel group of material to the well-known Egyptian bronzes also found on Samos. This pioneering study examines their meaning, chronology and typology, as well as establishing new guidelines for further research.

This volume examines thoroughly the origin and early history of the Heraion on the island of Samos, one of the most important sanctuaries of the Greek world. Topography, architecture and history of the sanctuary are traced from the ›Minoan Thalassocracy‹ across the Mycenaean expansion, the ›Ionian Migration‹, the first blossom in the 7th century B. C. with international relations to Egypt and the Near East and the building of the first two temples, Hekatompedoi I and II, to the time of the construction of the first giant temple, Dipteros I, in the first half of the 6th century B.C. and set into the geographical context of the contemporary developments on the other islands in the SE Aegean and on the west coast of Asia Minor.