Eleutherna Bridge

35.33805555555624.670833333333Koordinaten: 35 ° 20 ' 17 "N, 24 ° 40' 15" E

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The Bridge of Eleutherna is an ancient Greek Kragsteinbrücke near the ancient Eleutherna on the island of Crete ( Greece).

The well-preserved building has a considerable for Kragbogenkonstruktionen clear width of 3.95 m. The arch opening above the springing line has the shape of an isosceles triangle whose height is 1.84 m. The total length of the bridge consisting of unvermörtelten limestone blocks measuring 9.35 m; its width varies from 5.1 to 5.2 m and runs towards the center to 5.05 m slightly. The building height is between 4 and 4.2 m.

The bridge was first used to this day by the Englishman TAB Spratt described after exploring 1853 in his travelogue Travels and Researches in Crete. In his time, stood a few hundred meters away is another ancient bridge with a triangular arch, but which must have been destroyed before 1893 to judge nor a subsequent report claimed.

A precise dating of the two bridges of Eleutherna is hampered by a lack of meaningful small finds. Nevertheless, there is consensus in the research that is to start from a position of pre-Roman times: Nakassis assigns a still standing bridge as a Hellenistic work, while the Italian researchers Galliazzo a bridge construction at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd century BC, beginning of the period, assumes.