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Jan 31, 2018 · Pantheon Dome. Made primarily from bricks and concrete, the Pantheon consists of three sections: a portico with granite columns, a massive domed rotunda and a rectangular area connecting the...
- Missy Sullivan
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Apr 9, 2018 · Made of concrete, the dome is a perfect hemisphere and the largest surviving example of this kind of roof from the ancient world. What is the dome of the Pantheon made of? The dome of the Pantheon is made of a concrete mix (caementa) of light tufa and scoria (a type of pumice).
- Mark Cartwright
The dome of the Pantheon is the most remarkable part of a remarkable building. With an internal diameter of 43.44 meters, almost half the length of a football field, it is the largest dome ever built in masonry or unreinforced concrete.
Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43 metres (142 ft).
- 113–125 AD (current building)
- Roman temple
Mar 8, 2024 · The Pantheon is remarkable for its size, its construction, and its design. Until modern times, the dome was the largest built, measuring about 142 feet (43 metres) in diameter and rising to a height of 71 feet (22 metres) above its base.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pantheon dome (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The symbolism of the great dome adds weight to this interpretation. The dome’s coffers (inset panels) are divided into 28 sections, equaling the number of large columns below. 28 is a “perfect number,” a whole number whose summed factors equal it (thus, 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28).
It is actually three domes, one within the other, with the painted ceiling, visible from below, on the second dome. The dome is 83.0 metres (272 ft) high, compared with the tallest dome in the world, St. Peter's Basilica at 136.57 metres (448.1 ft).