Paper Pantheon project: labeled exterior and interior

Paper Pantheon reveals its interior
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Terms to be added to the paper Pantheon model:

- portico
- Corinthian columns of granite
- pediment
- vestibule
- rotunda
- dome of concrete
- oculus
- height and diameter of dome are equal
- continuous use for 2000 years
- Campus Martius, outskirts of city of Roma.
- Baths of Agrippa nearby.
- Converted to Christian church in medieval period, saving the structure.
- Bas relief on pediment looted during Dark Ages.
- Granite for columns quarried in Egypt.
- Thickness of dome is 21 ft at base, graduating to 4 ft at oculus.
- Hidden chambers engineered within the rotunda form a sophisticated honeycomb structure.
- Drains at center route water underground.
- Coffers, sunken panels, decorate dome interior.
- Influential form in architecture: example at U of Va, designed by Jefferson.


- Marcus Agrippa (63 BC – 12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general.[2] Defence minister to Octavian, the future Emperor Caesar Augustus and father-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, maternal grandfather of the Emperor Caligula, and maternal great-grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

He was responsible for most of Octavian’s military victories, most notably winning the naval Battle of Actium against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.