Eleutherna Bridge
Coordinates: 35 ° 20 ′ 17 ″ N , 24 ° 40 ′ 15 ″ E
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| use | footbridge | |
| Crossing of | Confluence of the Pharangitis and Chalopota brooks | |
| place | Prines , Crete ( Greece ) | |
| construction | Cantilever bridge | |
| overall length | 9.35 m | |
| width | 5.05-5.2 m | |
| Number of openings | 1 | |
| Clear width | 3.95 m | |
| height | 4–4.2 m | |
| construction time | Hellenistic epoch | |
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The Eleutherna Bridge is an ancient Greek Kragsteinbrücke near the ancient Eleutherna on the island of Crete ( Greece ).
The well-preserved structure has a clear width of 3.95 m, which is considerable for a cantilever arch construction . The arch opening has the shape of an isosceles triangle above the contender line , the height of which is 1.84 m. The total length of the bridge, which consists of unmortured limestone blocks , is 9.35 m; its width varies between 5.1 and 5.2 m and tapers slightly towards the center to 5.05 m. The height of the structure is between 4 and 4.2 m.
The bridge, which is still in use today, was described for the first time by the Englishman TAB Spratt after an exploration tour in 1853 in his travelogue Travels and Researches in Crete . In his time there was another ancient bridge with a triangular arch a few hundred meters away, but according to a later report it must have been destroyed before 1893.
An exact dating of the two bridges of Eleutherna is made difficult by the lack of meaningful small finds. Nevertheless, there is agreement in research that a pre-Roman period can be assumed: Nakassis classifies the still standing bridge as a Hellenistic work, while the Italian bridge researcher Galliazzo a construction period at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd century BC. BC, i.e. at the beginning of this epoch.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Briegleb 1971, p. 258; Galliazzo 1995, p. 37f .; Nakassis 2000
- ↑ All data from: Nakassis 2000, p 358
- ↑ Nakassis 2000, pp. 359f.
- ↑ Nakassis 2000, pp. 360, 363
- ↑ Nakassis 2000, p. 365, fn. 54
- ↑ Nakassis 2000, p. 364f.
- ↑ Galliazzo 1995, p. 37f.
literature
- Jochen Briegleb: "The pre-Roman stone bridges of antiquity". In: History of Technology . Volume 38, No. 3, 1971, pp. 255-260 (258).
- Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale . Volume 1. Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1995, pp. 37-38, ISBN 88-85066-66-6 .
- Athanassios Nakassis: The Bridges of Ancient Eleutherna . In: The Annual of the British School at Athens . Volume 95, 2000, pp. 353-365.
