old map from Epidaurus
<ol><li>Theatre (4th/2nd c. BC)</li>
<li>Cemetery of Late Antiquity (4th-5th c. AD), outside the sacred precinct</li>
<li>Hospice (<i>Katagogion</i>) for patients and companions</li>
<li>Bathhouse (3rd c. BC). In use, with modifications, during Roman times too</li>
<li>Building for celebrating ritual meals (<i>hestatorion</i>, late 4th c. BC)</li>
<li>Odeum (installed in the court of the half-ruined <i>hestatorion</i> in Roman times)</li>
<li>Propylon (monumental entrance) to the ceremonial <i>hestiatorion</i> (c. 300 BC). It was converted into a temple of Hygeia in Roman times</li>
<li>Fountain servicing the <i>hestiatorion</i> (3rd/2nd c. BC)</li>
<li>Building for the mystical cult of the Egyptian gods, that is the local deities Asklepios and Hygeia identified with Osiris and Isis (2nd c. AD)</li>
<li>Roman buildings (workshops south, stoa with bath north, and ancillary spaces east) which created a square in front of the sancutary of the Egyptian gods an the temple of Hygeia</li>
<li>Stadium (5th/3rd c. BC)</li>
<li>Temple of Artemis (late 4th c. BC). Beneath the altar and the east part of the temple, foundations of an <i>oikos</i> (treasury, temple-shaped edifice used by pilgrims from a foreign city) of the early 4th century BC</li>
<li><i>Oikoi</i> (treasuries) of the early 4th century BC</li>
<li>Altar of Apollo (6th c. BC)</li>
<li>Building for the ancient cult (with cathartic water and communion in the divine repast). In the NW corner a small shrine of Apollo, at the centre an open-air altar, around the perimeter a stoa (6th/5th c. BC, with several phases into Roman times)</li>
<li><b>Temple of Asklepios</b> (375-370 BC)</li>
<li><b>Tholos</b> (<i>Thymele</i>, subterranean dwelling-place of Asklepios, 360-330 BC)</li>
<li><b>Enkoimeterion</b> (<i>Abaton</i> [dormitory], 4th c. BC)</li>
<li>Annexe to the <i>Enkoimeterion</i> (4th c. BC / Roman period)</li>
<li>Athletes entrance to the Stadium (Palaestra?)</li>
<li>Building of the Roman period (Palaestra?)</li>
<li>Shaft-like cistern (3rd c. BC)</li>
<li>Sacred well (6th c. BC, later incorporated in the SE corner of the Abaton)</li>
<li>Buildings of the ancient cult (with cathartic bath and <i>enkoimeses</i>): Small stoa of the 6th century BC, later phase of the 5th/4th century BC, and bath of the early 4th century BC near the sacred well. The succeeding building of Roman times was calles Asklepios’ Bath</li>
<li>Statue-fountain (4th/3rd c. BC). Water brought secretly inside the statue of Asklepios poured from a bowl (phiale) held by the god and was channelled to Asklepios’ Bath</li>
<li>Altar of Asklepios (4th c. BC)</li>
<li>Sacred square</li>
<li>Library (2nd c. AD)</li>
<li>Temple of Themis (late 4th c. BC)</li>
<li>Well (6th/5th c. BC)</li>
<li>Propylaia of the sancuary (c. 300 BC)</li>
<li>Sacred Way (from the city of Epidauros)</li>
<li>Cistern (3rd c. BC)</li>
<li>Bath complex (Imperial times)</li>
<li>Bath complex, possibly incorporating a sanctuary of Isis (Imperial times)</li>
<li>Christian basilica of St John the Fasting (<i>Nestikos</i>) (5th c. AD)</li>
<li>Stoa of Kotys (for commercial activity in the sanctuary, 3rd c. BC)</li>
<li><i>Akoai</i> (from the Latin <i>aquae</i> = waters, a bath complex of Roman times)</li>
<li><i>Epidoteion</i> (Hypnos was calles <i>Epidotes</i>, i.e. bestower of goods)</li>
<li>Sacred fountain (3rd c. BC)</li>
<li>'Doric fountain' (3rd c. BC). The aqueduct bringing water from the springs on Mt Kynortion terminated here and at no. 40</li>
<li>Built section of the aqueduct from Kynortion and conduits of various (later) phases of the sanctuary</li>
<li>Bath complex of Late Antiquity</li>
<li>Well (5th c. BC)</li>
<li><i>Anakeion</i> (sanctuary of the <i>Anakes</i> = Dioskouroi, 4th c. BC)</li>
<li>House of Roman times</li>
<li>SE section of the perimetric stoa erected around the main sanctuary in the mid-4th c. AD</li>
<li>Base for a late building (when ground level was higher)</li>
<li>Bipartite sanctuary with two addorsed spaces (for heavenly and chthonic cult?, 4th c. BC)</li></ol>
Angela Monika Arnold, Berlin
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