05 Apr 2021
Doors of the Pantheon
Architecture, Hadrian, Pantheon, Rome
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“The oldest doors still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian’s rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD.
Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person.
Becky for scale.”
HT: Kimball Corson.
Wikipedia Pantheon article.