Antike Bauzeichnung des Pantheon entdeckt

In the 1930s, sketches and building plans were found on the travertine paving in front of the mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, built in 30 BC as a royal tomb. The sketches show two gables, a larger and a smaller one, and part of a Corinthian capital lying upside down. The places of the columns are marked on the baseline of the gables. The 24°-angle of inclination and the distances between the columns on the building plan of the large gable are exactly the same as the Pantheon's. The paving in front of Augustus's mausoleum must have been stone carvers workshop when building the Pantheon about AD 120. Thanks to its location nearby the river Tiber, the paved place was quite convenient for the delivery of stone blocks coming from the quarry. The blocks were roughly carved here and brought to the Pantheon's building site 800 m away afterwards. There, the stone blocks were placed into the building and the carving was finished.