Ein Paradeigma für Apollon

Neues zum ältesten erhaltenen Baubericht aus Didyma (I.Didyma 20)

Abstract

The oldest surviving construction report from Didyma (I.Didyma 20) records the positioning of several column components: half-plinths, basis, foot drum, column drums and probably also capital. The text is to be dated ca. 250/240 B.C. As the other construction reports testify, construction of the columns of the dodekastylos and the peristasis of the Temple of Apollo commenced only around 170 B.C. Therefore, long before the serial production of the columns a single column or parts of a single column were erected. This column was a paradeigma for all later columns, a specimen that stipulated the forms of the columns at the transition from the foundations and the socle wall to the superstructure. The paradeigma column corresponds to the mason’s markings relating to entasis, incised on the north socle wall of the adyton and discovered in 1979.