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===Kardaki Temple===
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[[File:Temple at Kardaki in Corfu.jpg|thumb|[[Kardaki Temple]]]]

Kardaki Temple is an [[Archaic Greece|Archaic]] [[Doric order|Doric]] [[Greek temple|temple]] in Corfu, [[Greece]], built around 500 BC in the ancient city of [[Korkyra (polis)|Korkyra]] (or Corcyra), in what is known today as the location Kardaki in the hill of Analipsi in Corfu.<ref name="Johnson">{{cite journal |author1=Franklin P. Johnson |title=The Kardaki Temple |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |date=January 1936 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=46–54 |doi=10.2307/498298 |quote=This is the only Greek Doric building that is known to have had no frieze. |jstor=498298 |s2cid=191378100}}{{subscription required}}</ref> The temple features several architectural peculiarities that point to a Doric origin.<ref name="Johnson"/><ref name="DinsmoorAnderson1973">{{cite book |author1=William Bell Dinsmoor |author2=William James Anderson |title=The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqahvzeE39YC&pg=PA92 |year=1973 |publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers |isbn=978-0-8196-0283-1 |page=92}}</ref> The temple at Kardaki is unusual because it has no [[frieze]], following perhaps architectural tendencies of Sicilian temples.<ref name=Acta>{{cite book |title=Acta Ad Archaeologiam Et Artium Historiam Pertinentia: 4o |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VflAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher="L'Erma" di Bretschneider |page=47 |quote=In this respect it is surpassed only by the perhaps slightly later temple at Kardaki on Corfu (*), where the frieze was completely omitted. This is nothing but the logical consequence of the tendencies from the early Sicilian temples, where the ties...}}</ref>

It is considered to be the only Greek temple of Doric architecture that does not have a frieze.<ref name="Johnson"/> The spacing of the temple columns has been described as "abnormally wide".<ref name="RobertsonS.1969">{{cite book |author1=Robertson |first=D. S. |url=https://archive.org/details/greekromanarchit0000robe |title=Greek and Roman Architecture |date=May 1969 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-09452-8 |edition=2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greekromanarchit0000robe/page/326 326] |author-link=Donald Struan Robertson |url-access=registration}}</ref> The temple also lacked both [[porch]] and [[adyton]], and the lack of a triglyph and [[metope]] frieze may be indicative of [[Ionians|Ionian]] influence.<ref name="Campbell2007">{{cite book |author=Campbell |first=Gordon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ur3pAAAAMAAJ |title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-530082-6 |page=311 |quote=A second temple, at Kardaki on the east side of Corfu town, was also Doric but had 6 by 12 columns, and its cella had neither false porch nor adyton. The columns are widely spaced, and the unusual absence of a triglyph and metope frieze may be explained by the influence of Ionic forms.}}</ref> The temple at Kardaki is considered an important and to a certain degree mysterious topic on the subject of early [[ancient Greek architecture]]. Its association with the worship of [[Apollo]] or [[Poseidon]] has not been established.