Moreover, it was symbolic of the city-state’s winners, it was built of the finest marble (Pentelic marble), this marble that Callicrates used it to build the temple of Athena Nike after the Parthenon. It was built by using column drums and metopes carved for the older temple which was built on the same site before being destroyed(Augustyn,2007). Form 118 to128 AD the Pantheon have been built using concrete which was used in all great imperial buildings like in Basilica of Maxentius in Rome after the Pantheon. Floor & dividers of insides are surfaced with fine stone sourced from over the Roman Domain, counting stone and different colored marbles; the coffered ceiling is exposed concrete. Nowadays known by the Church of St. Mary of the Saints, the Pantheon had its brilliant roof supplanted by one of lead. Its celebrated arch remains the bigger in the world to be built from unreinforced concrete and, in show disdain forward of expansion of Christian holy places and frescoes, its plan remains largely the same because it did under Hadrian’s run the …show more content…
It has eight columns in the north and the south of the building and in each side seventeen columns depending on a fixed ratio (number of columns in the side = double the number of columns in the north + 1) and another four Ionic columns inside the Parthenon supporting its roof, also this ratio had been used in most if the Greek architecture (Fletcher,1931). Propylea, which was constructed in 437-432 BC as the gateway to the sacred enclosure of the temple it was built of marble and also a Doric portico while having three pairs of Ionic columns, that it combined two types of orders just as the Parthenon(Fazio,2014). In the other hand, The Pantheon is remarkable for its size, its construction, and its design. As the Romans built many circular temples. Among the most important remaining examples of these are the temples of Vesta and Mater Matutain Rome, Vesta at Tivoli, and Venus at Baalbek. The greatest surviving circular temple of antiquity, and in many respects the most important Roman building, is the Pantheon in Rome. Until modern times, this special dome of the Pantheon was the largest built, it revealed a great symbol of the dominion of Rome, measuring about 43 meters in diameter and rising to a height of 22 meters above its base. Its unique design consisting of the entrance portico and a circular rotunda that both of them follow the Roman style. Also, both the porch and the intermediate building block show the