{"id":7705,"date":"2019-11-15T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=7705"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:46:45","slug":"architecture0","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/portfolio-item\/architecture0\/","title":{"rendered":"Column Capital of the Doric Order (2nd cent. BCE \u2013 1st cent. CE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7710\" src=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/doric-pf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/doric-pf.jpg 495w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/doric-pf-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/doric-pf-450x364.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A limestone column capital of the Doric order, 75 cm at base, preserved to a height of 36 cm.<\/p>\n<p>The capitol, which headed a column standing 3.8\u20134.5 m in height, is of exceptional shape, already out of style by Herod&#8217;s period, and likely stood in \u201cSolomon\u2019s Porch\u201d, the eastern portico of the Temple Mount built before the Herodian construction (Jewish Wars 5.145; John 10:23; Acts 3:11).<\/p>\n<p>Capitals of the Doric order from the Second Temple Period in Jerusalem were found in the Tomb of the \u1e24ezir priestly family, in the Western Wall Tunnels, in the Ophel south of the Temple Mount and in additional sites, and are dated to the days of the Hasmonaean dynasty and onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A column capital (75 cm in diameter) of the Doric  order, which originally rested on a column approximately 4.5m in height.  This capital is of exceptional shape, and may have stood in \u201cSolomon\u2019s Porch\u201d, the eastern portico of the Temple Mount built before the Herodian construction (Jewish Wars 5.145; John 10:23; Acts 3:11).<\/p>\n<p>Capitals of the Doric order are known in Second Temple Period Jerusalem in the Tomb of the Hezir priestly family, in the Western Wall Tunnels, in the Ophel south of the Temple Mount and in additional sites, and are dated to the days of the Hasmonaean dynasty and onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[379],"portfolio_entries":[378,363],"class_list":["post-7705","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-architecture","portfolio_entries-architecture","portfolio_entries-virtual-museum"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11342,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7705\/revisions\/11342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}