Anta (architecture)

An ante is an early wall tongue in ancient Greek and Roman architecture, it comes as a basic element but already in prehistoric buildings before. The Ante forehead is usually reinforced for Ante pillar which rests on an ante basis and is crowned by a Antenkapitell. In addition, may have a different cuboid stratification than the walls of the adjoining Ante pillars, even monolithe Ante pillars are known in a special way this distinguished member ( Athena in Tegea ). About the musicians follows a normal beams at the front.

In a temple the Ante is an elongated side wall of the cella. But doing so he may have a greater wall thickness than the cella walls as the Parthenon in Athens. Through the antenna the porch ( and the existing rear hall ) of a temple is bounded laterally. This is called a temple in the column between the antennas are ( in antis ) also ante templum in antis temple or a temple with columns in antis at the front and rear double anta temple. Even with a Peripteros where the cella is surrounded by a ring of columns, the antenna laterally delimit the forward and reverse Hall of the cella, the pronaos and the opisthodomos.

Probably comes the constructive design of the adobe structure, since the wall tongues were reinforced and stabilized at their ends by vertical wooden planks. Nevertheless, it is also found in the stone Megalithbau prehistoric times, where they occur as unsecured form of Astylos.