Ante temple

Ritzenberg Crypt in the Nischwitz Palace Park in the form of a Doric temple of Anten

The Temple of Ants ( Latin templum in antis ) is one of the oldest and simplest forms of the Greek temple . It consists of a rectangular room ( cella ) with a vestibule ( pronaos ). The vestibule is made up of the ante and two pillars in between . The Antentempel has an entablature running around the front and long sides, with the architrave often being replaced by another layer of stone. This distinguishes it from the naos of a ring hall temple ( peripteros ), in which the entablature of the pronaos usually ends at the antenna corners. The treasure house of the Athenians in Delphi or the temple of Dionysus in Miletus are to be addressed as Ante temples . The Romans also adopted this type of construction, which was therefore widespread throughout the Mediterranean region at least into the 3rd century .

A temple, on the back of which there are also antennas, which form an opisthodome there, is called a double- antenna temple . If the column positions between the ante are missing, one speaks of an astylos .

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  Ante temple

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  Treasury of the Athenians in Delphi.

literature

• Gottfried Gruben : The temples of the Greeks . Hirmer, Munich 2001 (5th edition), ISBN 3-777-48460-1
• Heiner Knell : Architecture of the Greeks: Basic features . Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-80028-1
• Wolfgang Müller-Wiener , Greek civil engineering in antiquity . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32993-4