Pier of Rhodes

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Coordinates: 36 ° 26 ′ 29 ″  N , 28 ° 13 ′ 57 ″  E

Pier of Rhodes
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use footbridge
Crossing of Ditch without a name
place Rhodes ( Greece )
construction Arch bridge with vaulted vaults
overall length 2.8 m
width Approx. 8 m
Number of openings 1
Clear width 2.8 m
Arrow ratio 3−4 to 1
construction time 4th century BC Chr.
location
Pier of Rhodes (Greece)
Pier of Rhodes
Oldest known Greek Keilstein Bridge

The Rhodes Pier is a small ancient Greek arch bridge in the city of Rhodes ( Greece ). That in the early period of Hellenism , possibly as early as the 4th century BC. The building erected in BC is considered to be the oldest Greek Keilstein bridge .

Construction and location

The pedestrian bridge was archaeologically excavated in 1966-67 near Akandia Bay, the city's eastern port. She crossed an artificial canal 2.15 m deep, which ran parallel to the ancient city wall and was separated from it by an 11 m wide street. The side walls of the ditch consisted of at least four layers of limestone blocks of the poros type, from which the bridge arch was also built.

The canal was spanned approximately in the middle by an 8 m wide arch of wedge stones, which functioned as a pedestrian crossing; the clear width of the arched opening corresponds to the width of the trench (2.8 m). The surprisingly high arrow ratio of 3−4 to 1 gives the arch the external appearance of a segmental arch or even a polycentric basket arch , which is only detectable in this one case in Greek architecture .

Although the footbridge of Rhodes has been called the only real vaulted bridge in the Greek world, at least three other - though not uncontroversial - examples from pre-Roman times have been identified.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Galliazzo 1995, p. 36; Boyd 1978, p. 91.
  2. ↑ Galliazzo 1995, p. 36.
  3. ↑ Galliazzo 1995, p. 36; only known case: Boyd 1978, p. 91.
  4. ↑ Boyd 1978, p. 91.
  5. ↑ Galliazzo 1995, p. 39f., On the other hand Briegleb 1971, p. 259.

literature

  • Thomas D. Boyd: The Arch and the Vault in Greek Architecture . In: American Journal of Archeology , Vol. 82, 1978, No. 1, pp. 83-100 (for the bridge, p. 91).
  • Jochen Briegleb: The pre-Roman stone bridges of antiquity . In: Technikgeschichte , Vol. 38, 1971, No. 3, pp. 255-260.
  • Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale . Vol. 1, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1995, ISBN 88-85066-66-6 , pp. 36, 39f.