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Pantheon granite columns. Large granite corinthian columns columns columns most preserved and influential building of ancient rome. The shafts of the pantheon s portico columns are composed of granite monoliths forty roman feet tall which were excavated from two egyptian quarries. At the front of the pantheon sixteen monolithic columns form the monument s well known portico. The shafts cylindrical part of the column are made of egyptian granite while the capitals decorative top of the column and bases were carved from white greek marble.
The pantheon is composed by three main elements. The granite used in rome was either grey or pink. The granite and marble columns were imported from egypt a land that was part of the roman empire. Just outside roman pantheon demonstrating the strength and foundational quality of the inner columns that hold up this epic building.
Temples from the 8th to mid 7th centuries bce at isthmia ephesus and corinth are believed to have employed wooden columns with stone bases alongside other structural elements in stone. In archaic greece stone began to replace wood as the primary building material for large buildings. Then there s the rotunda and the interior. The first stone columns.
These were dragged more than 100 km 62 miles from the quarry to the river on wooden sledges. Red granite columns in the pantheon and in s. A wonder of architecture. Each was 11 9 metres tall 1 5 metres in diameter and 60 tonnes in weight.
The grey granite columns that were actually used in the pantheon s pronaos were quarried in egypt at mons claudianus in the eastern mountains. The pantheon portico or entryway is a symmetrical classical design with three rows of corinthian columns eight in the front and two rows of four topped by a triangular pediment. The portico with 18 impressive granite columns some of which are made of pink granite that was brought to rome from egypt. It is a roman temple dedicated to all the gods.
The particles of quartz give it some shining effects. Granite is a very hard igneous rock made up of feldspar mica and quartz.
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