HELLENİSTİK-ROMA DÖNEMİ ANADOLU MİMARLIĞINDA BEZEMELİ KAİDELER

Abstract

The decorated column bases in Hellenistic-Roman Architecture in Anatolia The act of including the column bases into the architectural decoration programme is one of the Attic characteristics emerged for the first time at the Anatolian Architecture of Hellenistic Period. This execution starting with Apollon Temple of Didyma and Artemis Temple of Sardes and in a different way at the temples which were attributed to Hermogenes lasted in the Early Roman Period and later on. While this treatment is seen mostly on the temples all of which are almost prestigious buildings with their monumental sizes and decorations in the Hellenistic Period, the entrance gates and the honorific monuments were preferred as well from the Early Roman Period. The decorated bases were applied firstly at the important temples and the buildings with different functions in Roman Imperial Period. However, to the contrary, the percentage of the execution is fairly limited among the intensive building activity of the Imperial Period. As obviously observed at the monumental temples of which the architectural decoration were never completed because of the sizes, the challenging works caused by the application of the decorated bases at the colossal building in terms of time and finance can be accepted as the most important reason for the limited choices in this period. In this study, the buildings which have decorated bases and the general tendencies with the framework of Architecture of Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Anatolia were evaluated on the basic points