The great limestone temple at Sarmizegetusa Regia. (Re)Analysis of archaeological and architectural data.

The Great Limestone Temple is one of the most important monuments in Sarmizegetusa Regia. Identified already in the first years of the field research coordinated by C. Daicoviciu, the temple was excavated during a few decades and was heavily affected by the so called “restoration” works undertaken in Grădiștea de Munte, in the 1980s. The data referring to the monument is spread in many reports, papers, book chapters, architectural blueprints and topographical surveys, and the partial results of the research, sometimes inconclusive, generated divergent views. Reorganizing all the information coming from the excavation records, including the drawings, this paper is proposing a new building sequence of the temple, taking into account all the existing data, some of it until now unpublished.