The Erechtheion stands on the north side of the Acropolis in Athens. The infobox says possibly Mnesikles, while the text says the architect is unknown and names Mnesikles, Kallikrates and Iktinos as candidates. Philokles and Archilochos were overseers. The article names no client. The infobox gives 421 BCE to 406 BCE, though the text says recent scholarship favors the 430s.
The temple is Ionic, built of Pentelic marble with a blue Eleusinian limestone frieze and ashlar isodomic masonry. The article gives no dimensions. Work ended in 406 to 405 BCE, and the last accounts date to 405 to 404 BCE.
It may have burned in 377 to 376 BCE. It later became a church, and a basilica in the late sixth or seventh century. It served as a Frankish-era bishop's residence and was damaged in the 1826 to 1827 siege. Pittakis, Balanos and the Acropolis Restoration Service carried out anastylosis. It is a museum, and the article gives no hours.
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