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Karpion was an ancient Greek architect and architectural theorist active in the fifth century BCE. On the testimony of Vitruvius (7, praef. 12) he and Iktinos co-authored a treatise on the proportions of the Parthenon, the major Periklean Temple of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens.