Metrology and archaeology: The Doric capitals of Oria (Apulia region, Southern Italy)

- In the courtyard of the Episcopal palace Oria (a village located few kilometers at north-west of Brindisi) a Doric capital and a drum of the fifth century BC column (Classical period) from the ancient Acropolis Messapica are conserved. Also in Oria in the early medieval church of Gallana, about three kilometers from the Acropolis, there are two other Doric capitals, this time dating back to the Hellenistic period (fourth and third centuries BC). Starting with the measures of the moldings detected on the site and using the form (that is, the lowest common denominator of the relative sizes of the various architectural elements of a temple of the classical era and later Hellenistic period), the remaining measures were obtained which, the height of the column, the diameter of the same lower end and the height of the entablature of the two religious buildings in Puglia aged messapica.