Hecatompedon I is considered to be one of the earliest Greek temples, dated to the 8th century B.C. Because of its fragmentary state of preservation, however, the reconstruction is hypothetical. It is a rectangular, oblong building (length 33m., i.e. 100 feet, thus the name hecatompedon) with a 5 to 1 ratio of length to width, entered from the east. The walls were built of mudbrick on a stone crepis and a row of wooden posts resting on stone slabs along the central axis, supported the roof.The cult statue of the goddess stood on a simple rectangular base made of limestone slabs. In about the middle of the 7th century B.C. Hecatompedon II was erected on the foundations of its predecessor. The wall masonry was different and a peristasis of wooden posts on stone slabs was probably added, while on the east side there may have been two rows of columns. Both temples probably had gabled roofs covered with clay tiles.