arch history slides 6-9

Palace Complex (“Palace of King Minos”), Knossos, Crete, ca. 1700-1380 BC

Citadel at Tiryns, Peloponnesus, Mycenae, ca. 1300 BC

Megaron, Palace at Pylos, 13th century BC

Citadel and Palace of Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1600-1250 BC

-- hewn stone masonry with even faces and square edges laid in horizontal courses with vertical joints – as opposed to rubble or unhewn stone straight from the quarry

parallel masonry layers, each projecting beyond the one below.

• a “false” arch constructed by progressively cantilevering or corbelling from the two
• sides with horizontal joints.

in pre-Classical Greek architecture, a simple rounded capital carved from a block of stone, resembling a round cushion or pillow.

• in pre-Classical Greek architecture, masonry constructed of very large irregular blocks
• of stone. The later Greeks believed such masonry was the work of a race of giants, the Cyclopes.

a long, high-walled, sloping entrance passage to a Mycenaean tholos tomb.

the vertical face of an archway, doorway, or window.

a building with, or arrangement of, winding and confusing passageways

the principal hall of an Anatolian, Cretan, or Mycenaean palace or house. It is rectangular in plan, with a circular central hearth and a front porch formed by the prolongation of the side walls

a small gateway, sometimes concealed, at the back of a castle, town, or monastery.

an entrance-gateway to an enclosure (usually to a temple or palace precinct).

• an arch, usually of rough construction, placed in a wall above an arch or any opening, to
• relieve it of much of the superincumbent weight.

• (pl., tholoi) a round tomb. In Mycenaean architecture, a round, corbel-vaulted tomb;
• also referred to as a “beehive” tomb.

. acroteria) ornament placed at the apex or end of a pediment.

• a pilaster not conforming to the order used elsewhere in a building, usually placed at
• the ends of the projecting walls of a temple portico or pronaos.

the sanctuary of a Greek temple, which houses the cult statue.

literally, swelling. A slight convex curve to the profile of a column.

a false rear porch of a Greek temple.

• in classical architecture, a column with base (usually), shaft, capital, and entablature,
• decorated and proportioned according to one of the accepted modes (e.g., Greek Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian).

• in classical architecture, a low-pitched gable above a portico, formed by running the
• top member of the entablature along the sides of the gable.

single colonnade surrounding a building or courtyard

• a shallow pier or rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall, and, in
• classical architecture, conforming with one of the orders.

• a roofed space, open or partly enclosed, forming the entrance and center-piece of the
• façade of a temple, house, or church, often with detached or attached columns and a pediment. It is called prostyle or in antis according to whether it projects from or recedes into a building.

in a Greek temple, the space between the walls and the colonnades.

antechamber before the naos.

a substructure of masonry visible above ground level

a continuous flat coping or pavement on which a row of columns is supported.

the triangular space enclosed by the mouldings of a pediment.

pillar.

feathered, winged, or a row of columns.

having columns placed between two pilasters (antae) on end of projecting walls.

• (from Greek, stylos, meaning pillar) having columns across front of temple, but
• not between the projecting walls.

same as prostyle, but with columns at both ends.

Greek, “high city.” The upper citadel of a reek city, usually the site where important temples were erected.

• a sculptured female figure used as a column, as on the Erechtheion at the Acropolis of
• Athens.

armory at the Acropolis in Athens, holding the arms of the goddess Athena, as well as votive offerings

in Greek architecture, the stepped platform upon which the superstructure of a building is erected. The uppermost level of the crepidoma is the stylobate. The lower levels are called the stereobate

slight convex curve to the profile of a column.

Greek, young woman. An Archaic Greek statuary type depicting a young woman.

Greek, young man. An Archaic Greek statuary type depicting a young woman.

a simple long woolen belted garment worn by ancient Greek women.

Greek, picture gallery. At the Acropolis of Athens this room of the Propylaea

-- Greek, city.