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The stoa of Eumenes is placed between the the
theatre of Dionysos and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus, along the Peripatos (the
ancient road around the Acropolis). The king of Pergamon, Eumenes II, donated
this Stoa to the Athenian city, during his sovereignty, which endured from 197
to 159 B.C. This elongated building, 163.00 m. long and 17.65 m. wide, had two
storeys. The ground floor facade was formed from a colonnade of 64 doric
columns, while the interior colonnade consisted of 32 columns of Ionic order. On
the upper storey, the exterior colonnade had the
equivalent number of double-semicolumns of |
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ionic order
and the interior columns had the rather rare type of
capital, the Pergamene ones.
Nowadays, a visible part of the monument is the north
retaining wall, reinforced with buttresses connected by
semicircular arches. This wall was constructed in order
to hold the north earth embankment in place and to
support the etaded in the Peripatos. Today are also
visible: the Krene (spring) included in the north wall,
the stylobates of the inner colonnade on the ground
floor and the foundation of the exterior colonnade.
Besides a part of the substructure of the east
wall of the stoa has also survived, in addition to
the west wall, which suffered changes during the Roman period, when the Odeion of
Herodes
Atticus was erected.
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