Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Pentelic.
Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Pentelic and, of course, Pentelic synonyms and on the right images related to the word Pentelic.
Pentelic
Pentelic Pen*tel"ic, Pentelican Pen*tel"i*can, a.
Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for
its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount
Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is
built.
Meaning of Pentelic from wikipedia
-
quality and was used to
construct much of the
Athenian Acropolis. Later,
Pentelic marble was
exported to Rome,
where it was used in
construction and in sculptures...
-
standard 9:1 or 10:1
ratio in
Ionic buildings.
Constructed from
white Pentelic marble, it was
built in
stages as war-starved
funding allowed. The friezes...
- and
death of Dexileos. The
stele is made out of an
expensive variety of
Pentelic marble and is 1.86
metres (6 ft 1 in) tall. It
includes a high
relief sculpture...
-
quarrymen also knew how to
avoid the faults,
which were
numerous in the
Pentelic marble. If the
marble blocks were not up to standard, the
architects would...
-
monumental gate at the
western end of the
Acropolis with
Doric columns of
Pentelic marble,
built partly upon the old
Propylaea of Peisistratos.
These colonnades...
-
described as "among the most
stylistically advanced". The
relief is made of
Pentelic marble, and it is 106 cm tall and 52 cm wide. This slab is the most noteworthy...
- diameter. The
building material was
changed to the
expensive but high-quality
Pentelic marble and the
order was
changed from
Doric to Corinthian,
marking the...
- The
Townley Caryatid is a 2.25m high
Pentelic marble caryatid,
depicting a
woman dressed to take part in
religious rites (possibly
fertility rites related...
- women) ****enic
style sarcophagus,
shaped like an
Ionic temple and made of
Pentelic marble with
polychrome reliefs. The
trough stands on a 0.4 m (1.3 ft) pedestal...
- step of the
krepis or platform. The
architectural sculpture is in both
Pentelic and
Parian marble. The
dimensions of the
temple are 13.71 m
north to south...
