ERKEN ION YAPILARINDA ARCHİTRAV VE GEİSİPODES

Abstract

Abstract

Ionic architecture, which is recognized with Samos (III) Rhoikos, Ephesos Artemis, Didyma Apollon and Samos (IV) Polykrates temples in archaic Aegean Architecture in 6th century B.C. should be developed from the architectural tradition of West Anatolia and Aegean Islands. Ionic architecture is chiefly known by its column type and decoration of entablature. Entablatures of early ionic buildings are fairly important to make understand the relation between the buildings and wooden architectural tradition of West Anatolia and Aegean Islands, because the entablatures of Ionic building have two kinds of architectural elements. Some of these architectural elements are functional such as the architrave. Others, for example geisipodes which is also named tooth-cut, has more decorative usage than functional usage. Decorative and functional elements of ionic entablature are important to support the theories which clamed that ionic buildings have developed from wooden architecture. Not many entablatures of archaic ionic buildings are so far recorded. But resent archaeological discoveries such as the Polyxena Sarcophagus, Late Archaic In-antis in Labraunda and Early Classical Building in Daskyleion are enough to propose new ideas about the usage of architrav and geisipodes in early ionic architecture.