The roof was usually raised along a central ridge with a slope of approximately 15 degrees and was constructed from wooden beams and rafters covered in overlapping terracotta or marble tiles.
Greek temple roof angle.
In ecclesial architecture it is also used of the area between the baluster of a catholic church and the high altar what is usually called the sanctuary or chancel.
Parthenon temple that dominates the hill of the acropolis at athens.
It was built in the mid 5th century bce and dedicated to the greek goddess athena parthenos athena the virgin.
Because the parthenon had few straight lines and right angles its designers and builders had to hand craft each individual piece among a total of over 70 000 architectural members so as to fit them.
Most ancient greek temples were rectangular and were approximately twice as long as they were wide with some notable exceptions such as the enormous temple of olympian zeus athens with a length of nearly 2 1 2 times its width.
The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the doric order the simplest of the three classical greek architectural orders.
The list of ancient roofs comprises roof constructions from greek and roman architecture ordered by clear span roof constructions increased in clear span as greek and roman engineering improved.
Decorative acroteria palms or statues often stood at each point of the pediment.
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It appears that although the architecture of ancient greece was initially of wooden construction the early builders did not have the concept of the diagonal truss as a stabilising member.
In sicily truss roofs presumably appeared as early as.
A number of surviving temple like structures are circular and are referred to as tholos ancient greek.
Therefore the pitch of the roof should match the pitch of the pediment 3 4 14 4 reduced to lowest terms 1 7 7 2 which equals a slope of 23 611 or an inclination angle of 13 28481 degrees.
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In the parthenon however architects and artists combined forces to produce the most refined and perfect example of a greek temple known to date.
περίστασις was a four sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an ancient greek peripteros temple see also peristyle.
The smallest temples are less than 25 m.
The widest span of a temple roof was across the cella or inner chamber.