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These dimensions make more sense when expressed in ancient Roman units of measurement: The dome spans 150 Roman feet; the oculus is 30 Roman feet in diameter; the doorway is 40 Roman feet high. [58] The Pantheon still holds the record for the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. It is also substantially larger than earlier domes. [59]
The doors, measuring 4.45 metres (14.6 ft) wide and 7.53 metres (24.7 ft) high, consist of two leaves. [2] The panels and lintels of the doors are made of cast bronze. Each leaf pivots on pins installed in the floor at the bottom and in the architrave at the top. [3]
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Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:03, 28 September 2018 ... Cross-section of the Pantheon in Rome showing how a 43.3 m-diameter sphere fits under its dome ...
William Smith (1851) gives a value of 0.9708 English feet, or about 295.9 mm. [2] An accepted modern value is 296 mm. [3] That foot is also called the pes monetalis to distinguish it from the pes Drusianus (about 333 or 335 mm) sometimes used in some provinces, particularly Germania Inferior.
Description: Italian painter, etcher and drawer: Date of birth/death: 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 : 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768
Size of this preview: 329 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 131 × 240 pixels | 263 × 480 pixels ... Interior of Pantheon / Rome, Italy: Date: Taken on 21 November 2008:
The Pantheon obelisk The obelisk in front of the Pantheon. The Pantheon obelisk or Obelisco Macuteo is an Egyptian obelisk in Rome in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon on a fountain. It is one of the 13 obelisks in Rome and one of relatively few ancient monoliths. It is 6.34 m high (14.52 m including its base).