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has been dated to perhaps the first century AD. It "shows the existence of a monumental domical tradition in Central Asia that had hitherto been unknown and which seems to have preceded Roman Imperial monuments or at least to have grown independently from them." It likely had a wooden dome. The room
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tubes partially inserted into each other and arranged in parallel arches that were then completely covered with mortar. Iron pins were used to connect some of the tubes horizontally. It is also the earliest known example of this technique of tubular vault construction. A Hellenistic bathing complex
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stone domes have been found from the Middle East to Western Europe. These may indicate a common source or multiple independent traditions. A variety of materials have been used, including wood, mudbrick, or fabric. Indigenous peoples around the world produce similar structures today.
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chambers and domed ceilings. These underground vaults and domes did not require buttress supports since they were held in place by earthen pits. The continued use of domed ceilings in underground tomb architecture can be seen at sites such as the Baisha Tomb near
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In developing countries, domes are often less expensive alternatives to flat or sloped-roofed construction because they use less material to enclose a given volume and provide a lower rate of heat transfer due to the reduced surface area. Domes made with
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of Crete. Only the lowest 3 or 4 meters remain standing of structures that may have risen up to 12 meters, but they are generally agreed to have been domed and provide a developmental link between Neolithic round houses and the circular tombs of the
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in the first millennium BC. Another explanation, however, is that the use of the dome shape in construction did not have a single point of origin and was common in virtually all cultures long before domes were constructed with enduring materials.
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and has a round room preceded by a long rectilinear porch. Its layout might have been copied from Mycenaean tholos tombs and, still in use in the Roman period, it has also been suggested as an inspiration or precedent for the
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construction. However, because the relief depicts the Assyrian overland transport of a carved stone statue, the background buildings most likely refer to a foreign village, such as those at the foothills of the
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comes from the first century BC in the region of Palestine, Syria, and southern Anatolia, the "heartland of Oriental Hellenism". A stone pendentive dome is known from a first century BC bath in
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dwellings using local materials. Although it is not known when or where the first dome was created, sporadic examples of early domed structures have been discovered. Brick domes from the
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with dates beginning in the second millennium BC. The "Nubian dome" technique of using a movable guide to lay courses of a spherical dome dates back thousands of years in
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roofing to vaulted and domed construction in the first century AD, at least in Mesopotamia. The domed sanctuary hall of the temple was preceded by a barrel vaulted
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covered with a mound of earth, dates to around 1330 BC. It is about 15 meters in diameter and one of several tholos tombs with corbelled domes. Others include the "
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depicts domed buildings, although remains of such a structure in that ancient city have yet to be identified, perhaps due to the impermanent nature of sun-dried
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built between the 17th century BC and the 5th century BC include stone corbelled domes, some of which were covered by a flat roof or terrace. The largest,
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in the first millennium BC. Corbelling in the corners created pendentives. Built between the eighth century and the first century BC, particularly around
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and, along with other structures at the site, hosted some sort of cult activities connected to the memory of the kings of kings." The Sun Temple at
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buildings, likely granaries. Other examples of mud-brick buildings that also seemed to employ the "true" dome technique have been excavated at
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period are thought to have had brick domes, but the issue is unsettled due to insufficient evidence in what has survived of these structures.
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The historical development from structures like these to more sophisticated domes is not well documented. That the dome was known to early
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Ancient stone corbelled domes have been found from the Middle East to Western Europe. Corbelled beehive domes were used as granaries in
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Martines, Giangiacomo (2015). "Four - The Conception and Construction of Drum and Dome". In Marder, Tod A.; Jones, Mark Wilson (eds.).
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held audiences and festivals in domical tents derived from the nomadic traditions of central Asia. They were likely similar to the
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for use as temporary shelters at seasonal cattle camps, and as permanent homes by the poor. Extraordinarily thin
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between 1500 BC and 1300 BC, increasing in diameter from about 8 meters to about 14 meters in that time. The "
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between 3200 and 2700 BC. Similar above-ground tombs made of corbelled stone domes have been found in the
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Andrews, P. A. (1973), "The White House of Khurasan: The Felt Tents of the Iranian Yomut and Gökleñ",
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The nature and function of water, baths, bathing, and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance
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may also have used domes like these to cover its circular rooms. The domes are contemporaneous with
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wrote that domes were evidently of Persian origin, with those early Persian domes being thought by
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The earliest domes were likely domed huts made from saplings, reeds, or timbers and covered with
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and covered with hides or bark. A kind of corbelled dome using lengths of wood was used by the
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is an example. Wooden domes were evidently used in Etruria on the Italian peninsula from the
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to have been derived from an earlier use of brick dome-shaped huts like those he had seen in
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to have been derived from hemispherical bent-pole hide tents of the nomadic Iliate tribe of
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were built in some aboveground temples and tombs. However, underground tombs dating to the
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for at least a thousand years in central Asia, and to the early 1900s they were used from
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free-standing tombs about 4 to 13 meters in diameter are partially preserved on the
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The remains of a large domed circular hall measuring 17 meters in diameter in the
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region may go back as far as the fourth millennium BC. Likewise, domed houses at
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and construction of which was overseen by Archimedes, included a domed library.
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Small domes in corbelled stone or brick over round-plan houses go back to the
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in Rome, its shape apparently due to the use of a light tent-like framework.
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of Roman and Byzantine practice was presumably inspired by this association.
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showing the tops of three domes just emerging through the terraced roof.
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are found in Europe, Asia, and Africa, almost always using mud-bricks or
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semi-domes from the second century BC. The earliest evidence for
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have revealed pitched-brick domical vaults from about 2000 BC.
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by 1300 AD, were made of whalebone frames lashed together with
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Domes

Symbolism
Early and simple domes
Persian domes
Roman and Byzantine domes
Medieval Arabic and Western European domes
Italian Renaissance domes
South Asian domes
Early modern period domes
Modern period domes
Cloister vault
Geodesic dome
Onion dome
Coffer
Cupola
Lantern
Muqarnas
Oculus
Pendentive
Rotunda
Squinch
Tholobate
Whispering gallery
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