Treadwheel crane at construction site of Roman Temple of Diana Stock Image

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Description

Treadwheel crane at construction site of Roman Temple of Diana. Merida, Extremadura, Spain. Best-preserved Roman temple in Spain

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Keywords

• Treadwheel crane
• construction
• Roman Empire
• Greco-Roman Pentaspastos
• Five-pulley-crane
• ancient times
• buildings
• Greek crane
• lifting techniques
• engineers
• Vitruvius
• Heron of Alexandria
• Mechanica
• model
• scale
• trispastos
• single-beam jib
• winch
• rope
• pulleys
• pentaspastos
• load
• stone blocks
• overall lifting capability
• Roman engineers
• Temple of Diana Interpretation
• Centre
• Palacio de los
• Corbos
• Merida
• Extremadura
• Spain
• travel
• history
• building
• devoted
• worshipping
• Roman emperor
• great square
• forum of
• Augusta Emerita
• political hub
• commercial hub
• administration of
• justice
• sacrifices
• sacred ground
• temenos
• open air religious ceremonies