Prostate house
The prostate house ( Greek προστάς prostas "antechamber") is one of the ancient Greek house types. Other house types include the pasta house , the megaron and the peristyle .
The core of the Prostashaus is the oikos with vestibule ( Prostas ), in principle a further development of the Bronze Age megaron . Depending on the wealth and space, additional rooms can be grouped around the courtyard, such as an andron or an exedra . In contrast to the pasta house, the oikos and the vestibule (prostas) form a unit that are only assigned to each other and remain recognizable as such from the courtyard. The Prostas remains a vestibule and never assumes the character of a corridor like the Pastas. Usually two smaller adjoining rooms are attached to the side of the Oikos. The rear one is generally regarded as a chamber, while the front one, mostly accessed from the courtyard, is interpreted as an early Andron.
Examples of prostate houses were found in Priene , Kolophon , and Pergamon from the 7th century BC. BC also excavated in Vroulia . House 33 in Priene is an example of how a prostate house from the 4th century BC With the help of the neighboring property to a prostate house more than twice as large from the 2nd century BC. Was expanded.
literature
- The city excavation , By Meinrad N. Filgis, Wolfgang Radt , Klaus Rheidt , Ulrike Wulf , German Archaeological Institute, (Page 159) Published 1986, ISBN 3110101750
- Wolfram Hoepfner and Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner , House and City in Classical Greece , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1986 (Living in the Classical Polis, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-422-00788-1 , (Description in google books and the second extended edition from 1994 at the DAI ( Memento from May 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))
- Wilfried Koch , architectural style , (special edition 1994, Mosaik Verlag GmbH Munich), ( page 342 ) ISBN 3572006899